Land use controls : present problems and future reform / edited by David Listokin.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Introduction: -- Land use controls: present problems -- II. Overview and deficiencies: -- 1. Land-use controls: zoning and subdivision regualtions (excerpts) / National Commission on Urban Problems -- 2. Requiem for zoning (excerpts) / John Reps -- 3. Problems of zoning and land use regulation (excerpts) / American Society of Planning Officials -- 4. The role of zoning in housing and metropolitan development (excerpts) / Daniel Mandelker -- III. Empirical Analysis: -- 5. Measuring the invisible wall: land use controls and residential patterns of the poor / Eric Branfman, Benjamin Cohen and David Trubek -- 6. Urban property markets: some empirical results and their implications for municipal zoning / John Crecine, Otto Davis and John Jackson -- 7. Exclusionary land use controls: the case of North-Eastern New Jersey / Norman Williams, Jr. and Thomas Norman -- 8. Zoning and housing costs (excerpts) / George Sternlieb and Lynne Sagalyn -- Land use controls: present and future reforms -- IV. The courts and exclusionary zoning: -- 9. Significant developments and trends in zoning litigation (excerpts) / Erwin Elias -- 10. Recent cases in exclusionary zoning (excerpts) / Daniel Lauber -- 11. Exclusionary zoning: after the walls come down / John Levy -- V. More flexible controls: -- 12. Legal aspects of planned unit development in theory and practice / Jan Krasnowiecki -- 13. The basic philosophy of zoning: incentive or restraint / Daniel Mandelker -- 14. Interim development controls: essential tools for implementing flexible planning and zoning (excerpts) / Robert Freilich -- 15. Can the town of Ramapo pass a law to bind the rights of the whole world? / Fred Bosselman -- 16. From the legislatures: proposed development rights legislation can change the name of the land investment game / Jerome Rose -- VI. Greater regional control and intervention: -- 17. The supply and availability of land for housing for low- and moderate-income families (excerpts) / Paul Davidoff and Neil Gold -- 18. The quiet revolution in land use controls (excerpts) / Fred Bosselman and David Callies -- 19. Fair share housing distribution: will it open up the suburbs to apartment development / David Listokin -- 20. Comments on model land development code / Richard Babcock -- 21. New directions in federal land use legislation / William Reilly -- 22. Comparative analyses of state land use laws, legislative proposals and model codes / Library of Congress, Environmental Policy Division -- 23. Wanted: two federal levers for urban land use - Land banks and Urbank (excerpts) / Charles Haar -- VII. Private market alternative to land use control: -- 24. Non-zoning in Houston (excerpts) / Bernard Siegan.