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Land Use Prof Blog

By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Ed McMahon (no, not that one) weighs in...

Posted on February 10, 2011
...on factors that are driving a change in retail construction: For more than 50 years retailers have favored the commercial strip: a linear pattern of retail businesses strung along major roadways characterized by massive parking lots, big signs, box-like buildings...

Public Funding for Religious Landmark Upheld

Posted on February 10, 2011
U.S. District Judge Michael McCuskey (C.D. Ill.) has dismissed (Jurist story here) an Establishment Clause lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Commerce and Economic Opportunity Department's awarding of a restoration grant for the Bald Knob Cross of Peace (history...

Billions for High Speed Rail

Posted on February 10, 2011
Vice President Biden made an announcement Tuesday that's grabbing headlines - $53 billion in the Administration's proposed budget for high speed rail. From an article on CNN.com: The proposed new investment -- including $8 billion in the upcoming fiscal year...

'A classic example of state-sponsored, de-greening gentrification'

Posted on February 09, 2011
This is the characterisation of a development project in central London, near the Elephant & Castle, where social housing is being demolished in the name of regeneration, to be replaced by privately owned accomodation with 25% protected as 'affordable'...

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Surprising Housing Statistic...

Posted on February 09, 2011
USA Today is reporting that, if I'm reading this chart correctly, over 70% of the homes in Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) are underwater--that is, they owe more on the mortgage than the value of the home. If that's the...

Recent Article Highlights Need to Think Comprehensively About Land Conservation

Posted on February 09, 2011
A new article in the journal Conservation Biology, highlights the need to shift our way of thinking about preservation sites. As I (and many others) have noted elsewhere, climatic changes are likely to disrupt current land protection schemes. Many of...

Super Land Use Bowl

Posted on February 09, 2011
In class, we started off the week with a quick session of Current Events in Land Use (aka, what-can't-Festa-turn-into-a-land-use-issue). The topic? Super Bowl. The students were prepared. Here's what they came up with: The weather. Of course that was on...

Junior Scholars II

Posted on February 08, 2011
Jessica is absolutely right about the Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop this past weekend. Keith Hirokawa (Albany) did a fantastic job of organizing this (and he also happens to be a land use prof). And in addition to...

Eminent Domain Song

Posted on February 07, 2011
I am neither endorsing the musicality of this video nor its message but I just can't resist sharing land-use-inspired music. - Jessica Owley

Junior Scholars

Posted on February 07, 2011
I just returned from the 2011 Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop at Albany Law School. This was a great event for junior scholars with a strong showing by land use and environmental law faculty. There were papers on...

Fracking Conference

Posted on February 07, 2011
We've got a lot of exciting things going on here in Buffalo these days. At the end of March, we'll be holding a symposium and community forum on fracking. I hope to see some of you there! - Jessica Owley...

Weekend Break....

Posted on February 06, 2011
Not expressing an opinion on the content...just a slight nod to Mr. Stewart for giving us a break from it all. The Daily Show Municipal Land-Use Hearing Update...

Introducing Crime Maps

Posted on February 05, 2011
In the UK this week crime maps have been launched on a police website that crashed repeatedly over the first 48 hours as a result of the numbers of hits. The innovation was broadly welcomed in the press despite concerns...

Balancing Wind Issues...

Posted on February 05, 2011
I remember driving by a huge wind turbine during a recent vacation and thinking to myself "Wow, that thing looks really big". That's the reason--their large size which can interfere with good views--wind power can get mixed up in land...

C'mon FDOT...

Posted on February 04, 2011
...you can do better than this: According to city planners and elected officials, residents and activists, the reason is simple: Brickell Avenue, the spine of Miami's densest pedestrian district, lacks sufficient marked crosswalks and traffic signals...

Groundhog Day 2011

Posted on February 04, 2011
Sorry I'm a couple days late with this--blame the weather. If you've been following the blog you know that I like to do a holiday post relating to land use. So on Wednesday I asked my students to play a...

The Principle of Proximity

Posted on February 04, 2011
Heard the news that the Internet has made geography irrelevant to the formation of community? You might want to look at this paper anyway. Jeremy Waldron (NYU) has posted The Principle of Proximity. Here's the abstract: How should we think...

Snow Days in Texas and Elsewhere

Posted on February 04, 2011
Today I am in my hometown of Albany NY, trudging through waist-high ramparts of plowed snow. Much of the US has suffered tremendous snowfalls/blizzards in the past week. Back in my current home of Houston, TX, my family and students...

People in Foreclosure Need Lawyers

Posted on February 03, 2011
From today's New York Times on-line, an article about how lawyers and courts overwhelmed by the sheer number of foreclosure cases in New Mexico have taken to training homeowners to proceed pro se. However, nationwide, attorneys agree that what would....

Environmental Advocates Split on Density...

Posted on February 03, 2011
Apparently, some within the environmental movement disagree whether compact and higher density developments oriented around mass transit are really worth the greenspace-saving benefit they bring: But, increasingly, even the staunchest environmentalists are advocating plans to build up cities near transit...

Mortgage Meltdown Primer...

Posted on February 02, 2011
One of the advantages of teaching a first year Property course that totals 6 hours (over two semesters) is having a great deal of flexibility in course coverage (though, since we are changing to a one semester, 4 hour course,...

Land Use ? Environmental Law

Posted on February 02, 2011
Yesterday, I wrote about my epiphany of recognizing myself as a Land Use professor. Today, I want to explore the interplay between Land Use and other subject areas. One of the challenges of the legal field is the way we...

Ethical Land Use

Posted on February 02, 2011
One of the very early discussions we have in my interdisciplinary land use and planning law course is a discussion of the students' examples of good and bad land uses and why they think that they are good and bad....

Graffiti as Art

Posted on February 02, 2011
A fascinating new book is available from Taschen, the publishers of fancy Schmancy artsy books. Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art. This book is about more than just graffiti, it also includes performances, protests, and urban reclamation...

One of the Many Reasons I Love Buffalo

Posted on February 02, 2011
While the rest of the country is reeling from the huge snow storms, it was just another winter day here in Buffalo. (Most of the schools were closed today, but the consensus seems to be that they shouldn't have bothered...

Introducing Jessica Owley

Posted on February 01, 2011
Here at the Land Use Prof Blog we've been incredibly fortunate to have some really bright scholars willing to contribute--from getting Jim Kelly and Tony Arnold join the lineup, to several interesting guest bloggers, including Ken Stahl, McKay Cunningham, and...

Housing Fellowship Program in New York

Posted on February 01, 2011
Here is an announcement that may be of interest to your students: HPD-HDC Housing Fellows Program 2011-2013 The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation?s largest municipal housing preservation and development agency...

Land Use Prof? Who Me?

Posted on February 01, 2011
Many thanks to Matt for inviting me to participate this month and for his kind introduction. As regular reader of this blawg, I was delighted when Matt asked me to participate. However, I was a bit surprised as well. Beyond...

Genghis Khan: progressive land use executive?

Posted on February 01, 2011
That's essentially what the Mother Nature Network asks in its article Was Genghis Khan History's Greenest Conqueror? The article reports on the latest research led by Julia Pongratz from the Carneige Institution's Department of Global Ecology: Over the course of...

Another Strange but Interesting Resource...

Posted on February 01, 2011
Chad Emerson

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