Perspectives
Regulatory Uncertainty
Regulatory Uncertainty was listed as the #8 issue in the 2022-23 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. “The emerging conflict between state preemptive...
Topic: Land Use & Zoning
Perspectives
America’s Sordid History of Exclusionary Zoning
In the summer of 1910, a successful Yale-educated attorney named George W.F. McMechen and his schoolteacher wife moved to an upscale neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. After all, McMechen had...
Features
How American Cities Can Benefit from “Land Value Capture” Instruments in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
Why Now? The financial pressure cities are experiencing due to COVID-19 only amplifies the pre-existing historical underinvestment in municipal infrastructure and adds urgency to cities’ search for...
Perspectives
Space Utilization and the Built Environment
Space Utilization was listed as the #7 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Many new ideas, solutions, and procedures have been born...
Features
How Smart Has Smart Growth Been?
Smart Growth refers to urban design and transportation planning agendas which its adherents believe create vibrant, high density urban centers with an ever decreasing dependency on the automobile....
Features
Changes in Land Policy: How Fundamental Are They?
Originally Printed: Fall 1976 This article is based on a paper presented by the author to the Western Agricultural Economics Association in Fort Collins, Colorado on July 20, 1976. From Growth to...
