There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for [...]
This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model to predict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature [...]
This study analyzes the adoption of growth controls in suburban municipalities. It combines data from census materials with a 1973 questionnaire survey of city planning officials concerning local growth control [...]
The developer must also comply with zoning requirements, which are generally designed to protect property values by excluding "undesirable" projects. The objections are legion. "The height limit has been exceeded," [...]
In short, it is time to discard the tired baggage of conventional zoning and start afresh with a new approach to land-use policy. What is needed are land-use policies that [...]
This paper analyzes a simple model of an urban area with growth and uncertainty...Even though investors are risk neutral, uncertainty affects both land rents and land prices in equilibrium because [...]
Local land use regulations have been justified on the ground that local governments are authorized to exercise police power to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of their residents [...]
Empirical research has demonstrated the importance of such institutional structures as branch bank laws, bank cooperation arrangements, and formal clearing houses, for the probability of panic and for the resolution [...]
In this paper, we examine the effects of state land-use controls on the aggregate demand and supply of residential land. Previous studies have examined the effect of land-use regulation on [...]
The 1970s spawned a ‘first generation’ of growth controls which featured explicit (or implicit) restrictions on residential housing construction. These restrictions were typically implemented in small, affluent, and predominantly white [...]