The Land Use Policy Debate in the United States

Much of the preparation of this book has been generously supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It evolved from a colloquium held in October 1977, under the sponsorship of the Lincoln Institute. The three-day symposium entitled "Land Policy: Making the Value Choices" involved the preparation of major papers and formal discussions, most of which appear here in considerably revised form, along with additional pieces commis sioned later. The colloquium was an idea jointly conceived by myself and Edward Wood, a colleague at the time in the Tufts University Program in Urban Social and Environmental Policy. We were concerned about two major limitations in the literature and debates over land use. On the one hand, there was little explicit recognition of the latent values that motivated land use policy. On the other, there was no common forum where people from the different land use fields could discuss the issues and learn from one another. A small group of about two dozen people was invited to the colloquium. Each member was a leading spokesman for a different perspective and area of expertise. All participated formally in some fashion. All the papers were written expressly for the col loquium, with the exception of Ann Strong's, which was a keynote address to the American Society of Planning Officials earlier in the year. None of the papers has been published elsewhere.

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Introduction: Uncovering the Debate.- Section 1 The Outcomes.- I Land Use Policy as Economic Policy.- 1 The Effects of Economic Policy on Patterns of Land Use.- II Land Use Policy as Social Policy.- 2 Land Use: A Tool for Social Policies.- 3 Place and Nonplace: The New Search for Roots.- III Land Use Policy as Environmental Policy.- 4 Conceptions of the Environment.- 5 The Search for Natural Limits to Growth.- 6 Land Use Policy and Value Choice: An Environmental Design Perspective.- 7 Land Use Policy and the Symbolic Politics of Environmental Conflict.- IV Land Use Policy as Capitalist Policy.- 8 Introduction to the Political Economy Perspective.- 9 National Land Use Policy: Instrument and Product of the Economic Cycle.- 10 Land Policy, Economic Cycles, and Social Conflict.- Section 2 The Decision Process.- V Market Failure and Land Use Policy.- 11 Market Failure: Efficiency or Equity?.- 12 Land Use Planning as a Response to Market Failure.- VI Legal Process.- 13 The Taking Issue in Land Use Regulation.- VII Roles for the Public.- 14 Citizen Participation and Consensus Building in Land Use Planning: A Case Study.- 15 The Limits of Consensus Building.- 16 A Plea for More Representative Government.- Section 3 The Future.- VIII A New Land Ethic and the Problem of Political Control.- 17 Land as a Public Good: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again.- 18 A Case for Local Governance and Private Property.- 19 Localism and Political Freedom.- Conclusion: Disentangling the Debate.- Author Index.