Keep Out: The Struggle for Land Use Control

by Sidney Plotkin

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520325715
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Land Use, Property, and Power

1 A Fenceless America 19

2 History, Property, and Law 47

3 The Bumpy Road to Zoning 75

Part 2 Case Studies, Conflict, and Land Use Control

Introduction to Part Two: The Restructured Metropolis 113

4 Land Use Politics, Texas Style 119

5 Toward a National Land Use Policy 149

6 The Frustration of Reform 175

7 The Defeat of the Energy Mobilization Board 201

8 Overviews and New Views 227

Notes 251

Selected Bibliography 323

Index 345