Land Use and Society, Third Edition : Geography, Law, and Public Policy - Platt, Rutherford H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014)
Introduction: Geography, Law, and Landscape: Reflections from 30,000 Feet -- PART I Preliminaries: Land, Geography, and Law -- 1. Land Use and Society: Fundamentals and Issues -- 2. Shaping the Human Landscape: The Interaction of Geography and Law -- PART II From Feudalism to Federalism: The Social Organization of Land Use -- 3. Historical Roots of American Land Use Institutions -- 4. Building a Metropolitan Nation: 1900-1940 -- 5. The Polarized Metropolis: 1945-2010 -- PART III Discordant Voices: The Land Use Decision Process -- 6. Property Rights: The Owner as Planner -- 7. The Patchwork of Local Governments -- 8. Zoning, Regionalism, and Smart Growth -- 9. Land Use and the Courts -- 10. Congress and the Metropolitan Environment -- Epilogue -- Common Acronyms -- Notes -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental law; Environmental policy; Urban planning; City planning; Urban geography; Regional planning; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Urbanism; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning