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Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials, Third Edition » (3rd Edition)

Book cover image of Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials, Third Edition by Robert C. Ellickson

Authors: Robert C. Ellickson, Vicki L. Been
ISBN-13: 9780735539969, ISBN-10: 0735539960
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: 3rd Edition

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Author Biography: Robert C. Ellickson

Book Synopsis

Give your students a casebook as dynamic as the subject of land use by adopting this thoroughly revised edition of a former best seller. LAND USE CONTROLS: Cases and Materials, Third Edition , illuminates the legal regulation of the land development

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Summary of Contents

• The Land Development Process
• Markets and Planners: An Initial Look at Relative Institutional Competence
• Zoning and the Rights of Landowners and Developers
• Zoning Changes and the Rights of Neighbors
• Subdivision Regulations, Building Codes, Aesthetic Controls
• Alternatives to Public Regulation: Nuisance Law, Fees and Rewards, Covenants
• Financing the Urban Infrastructure
• Discriminatory Land Use Controls
• The Regional Obligations of Municipalities
• Government as Landowner, Developer, and Financier

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