1st Edition
Zoning A Guide for 21st-Century Planning
OPENING ESSAY: Is Zoning the Answer? What's the Question?
Jerold S. Kayden
Section I: Zoning in Context
CHAPTER 1. Zoning matters: Institutions and Action for the 21st century
Elliott Sclar, Bernadette Baird-Zars, Lauren Ames Fischer, and Valerie Stahl
CHAPTER 2. The Six Stories of Zoning
Raphaël Fischler
CHAPTER 3. The Financialization of Zoning and the Fungibility of Air Rights
Elliott Sclar
CHAPTER 4. Rural Zoning: Land Use Policy in a Contested and Neglected Landscape
Evangeline R. Linkous
Section II: Zoning in Planning
CHAPTER 5. Zoning, Transport, and Urban Growth: An Institutional Perspective
Lauren Ames Fischer
CHAPTER 6. Zoning Dollars and Change: Local Economic Development Zones
Rachel Meltzer
CHAPTER 7. Zoning to Adapt: Climate change zoning and the lessons of environmental zoning efforts past
Siobhan Watson
CHAPTER 8. Zoning for inclusion and affordability:US lessons on the opportunities and limits for local housing policy
Adèle Cassola
Section III: Zoning in Practice
CHAPTER 9. Zoning as a verb: a scaffolding for land use planning practice
Bernadette Baird-Zars
CHAPTER 10. Racial bias in zoning: the case of Durham, North Carolina, 1945-2014
Andrew H. Whittemore
CHAPTER 11. Zones of Resistance: Local Participatory Institutions in Two NYC Neighborhood Rezonings
Valerie E. Stahl
CHAPTER 12. Analyzing zoning as an institution: methods for scholarship and practice
Rosalie Singerman Ray, Bernadette Baird-Zars and Elliott Sclar
Biography
Elliott Sclar is Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development and Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University. He is a global expert on the finance and governance of transportation and land use, and his book You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization (Cornell, 2000) won the Louis Brownlow Award (2001) and the Charles Levine Prize (2000).
Bernadette Baird-Zars works on the implementation of land use and housing initiatives. With support from the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, USAID-OCHA, and the Post-Conflict Cities Lab, her current research at Columbia University examines land practices over political transitions in Mexico, Syria, and the US. Bernadette is a partner at Alarife Urban Associates.
Lauren Ames Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of North Texas. Her research examines the governance processes and soocio-spatial impacts of urban transport and land use and has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Lauren holds a doctorate from Columbia University.
Valerie E. Stahl’s research explores housing policy and community planning in US cities. Her current project focuses on tenant engagement and resistance in a New York City public housing redevelopment. Valerie holds a master’s degree in Urban Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia University.
“The editors of the new volume Zoning: A Guide for 21st-Century Planning have carefully selected a broad range of chapters which attest to the current state of zoning in U.S. urban planning practice. [T]his book is suitable for those who need to learn the basics of zoning, those who use it in practice daily, and those who study its use and effects.” -- Leah Hollstein in Journal of Urban Affairs
