Arbitrary Lines

How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development?It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities.The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling.The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Reform is in the air, with cities and states across the countrycritically re-evaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Durham, and Hartford, the key pillars of zoning are under fire, with apartment bans being scrapped, minimum lot sizes dropping, and off-street parking requirements disappearing altogether. Some American cities—including Houston, America’s fourth-largest city—already make land-use planning work without zoning.In Arbitrary Lines, Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary critiques of zoning. Gray sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city.Despite mounting interest, no single book has pulled these threads together for a popular audience. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray fills this gap by showing how zoning has failed to address even our most basic concerns about urban growth over the past century, and how we can think about a new way of planning a more affordable, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable American city.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:344 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9781642832549

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Mer om författaren

M. Nolan Gray is a professional city planner and an expert in urban land-use regulation. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gray previously worked on the front lines of zoning as a planner in New York City. He now serves as an Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he advises state and local policymakers on land-use policy. Gray is a contributor to Market Urbanism and a widely published author, with work appearing in outlets such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg Citylab, and The Guardian. He lives in Los Angeles, California and is originally from Lexington, Kentucky.

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"A welcome manifesto for rethought urban spaces and their outliers, bringing social justice into the discussion."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart IChapter 1. Where Zoning Comes FromLand Use Before ZoningWhat Changed?1916The Federal PushChapter 2. How Zoning WorksHow Zoning Is BornDecoding the CityEverything in Its Right PlaceDon’t Be DenseHow Zoning ChangesPatching Up Zoning?Part IIChapter 3. Planning an Affordability CrisisZoned OutMandating MansionsHousing Delayed is Housing DeniedWhy Did This Happen?Chapter 4. The Wealth We LostHow Cities Make Us RichZoning for StagnationHow Much Poorer Are We?Chapter 5. Apartheid by Another NameZoning for SegregationAll Are Welcome, If You Can Afford ItThe Bitter Fruits of SegregationChapter 6. Sprawl by DesignZoning for SprawlAssume a CarFleeing SustainabilityPart IIIChapter 7. Toward a Less Bad ZoningThe Low-Hanging Fruit of Local ReformTaming Local ControlIs There a Role for the Federal Government?Turning JapaneseChapter 8. The Case for Abolishing ZoningWhy Reform Isn’t EnoughSteelmanning ZoningMeanwhile, Back in the Real WorldChapter 9. The Great Unzoned CityThe Compromise That Saved HoustonHow Cities Organize ThemselvesLand-Use Regulation After ZoningHow to Abolish Zoning in Two Easy StepsChapter 10. Planning After ZoningIt’s the Externalities, Stupid!Desegregating the Post-Zoning CityReviving the PlanConclusionAppendix: What Zoning Isn’tZoning Isn’t the MarketZoning Isn’t the Only Kind of Land-Use RegulationZoning Isn’t Environmental RegulationZoning Isn’t PlanningAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorRecommended ReadingEndnotesIndex