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By Paul Boudreaux

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

Who 'owns' Harlem, the capital of black America?

Posted on February 01, 2011
This is the title for a new radio documentary on the BBC World Service available (from tomorrow) here on the gentrification of Harlem by writer Michael Goldfarb. I'm looking forward to it partly to see if it will enrage me....

Land Use Lecture Series: The Boehl Lecture Example

Posted on February 01, 2011
So (continuing from my post yesterday) . . . Judith Wegner's lecture on annexation and land use dilemmas last week at the University of Louisville contains a kernel of wisdom about having distinguished land use scholars come to a university...

Road running as a land use tour

Posted on January 31, 2011
Today was the Houston Marathon, in which your humble blogger was joined by 26,000 others in self-inflicted pain and suffering. It occurred to me--in between bouts of cursing my foolhardy decision to enter the race--that running is a great way...

Local Milk

Posted on January 31, 2011
From time to time on this blog we've written about local agriculture, including a post I wrote about a controversy in Fall 2009 where the Georgia agriculture department seized a large shipment of raw millk from a local purveyor. Today's...

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Judith Wegner, Annexation, and the Boehl Lectures

Posted on January 31, 2011
Thanks, Matt, for the wonderfully kind introduction. I am excited to be guest-posting on the Land Use Prof blog. Despite the flood of emails (and steady stream of students and professors wanting an associate dean's immediate attention), I read the...

Weekend Break...

Posted on January 30, 2011
I know many people snicker at James Howard Kunstler but I generally find his commentary on how we must revert to more walkable and mass transit-oriented communities in response to the ongoing depletion of "easy to get" oil (peak oil...

Yes, there are Grocery Stores in Detroit

Posted on January 29, 2011
The Urbanophile shares a story by James Griffioen called Yes, there are Grocery Stores in Detroit. Griffioen is responding to the oft-repeated assertion that the city of Detroit--still the 11th largest city in America with over 800,000 people--does not have...

Introducing Tony Arnold

Posted on January 29, 2011
He probably needs no introduction, but we're thrilled to have Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold join us on the blog. At the University of Louisville, Tony is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Faculty Development; Boehl Chair in Property &...

Baltimore City Sign Ordinance Struck Down

Posted on January 29, 2011
U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Garbis issued his decision yesterday in O'Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Finding it contrary to the First Amendment, the court invalidated a 2009 Baltimore City ordinance that required any organization advertising pregnancy-related...

New ALPS Info...

Posted on January 28, 2011
With the ALPS conference being just over one month away, you can find some new info on the website including some of the conference papers that have been posted. A participants list has been posted, too. Looks like a great...

McFarlane on the Geography of the Black Middle-Class

Posted on January 28, 2011
My colleague, Audrey McFarlane (Baltimore), has posted Operatively White?: Exploring the Significance of Race and Class Through the Paradox of Black Middle-Classness, 72 J. Law & Contemp. Probs. 163 (2009). Here's the abstract: The black?white paradigm has been the crucial...

Wiseman on Expanding Regional Renewable Governance

Posted on January 28, 2011
Hannah J. Wiseman (Tulsa) has posted Expanding Regional Renewable Governance, forthcoming in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 35 (2011). The abstract: Energy drives economies and quality of life, yet accessible traditional fuels are increasingly scarce...

Ramello on Property Rights, Externalities, and Knowledge

Posted on January 27, 2011
Giovanni Battista Ramello (University of Eastern Piedmont; ICER) has posted Property Rights and Externalities: The Uneasy Case of Knowledge. The abstract: Drawing from Coase?s methodological lesson, this article discusses the specific case of knowledge, which was for a long time...

Public or Private?

Posted on January 27, 2011
In the UK the Government?s latest plans to sell off the Forestry Commission?s woodland estate have caused uproar, with campaigners including Dame Judi Dench, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Annie Lennox characterising the suggestion as ?misjudged and short-sighted?...

Schutz on Grassland Governance and Common-Interest Communities

Posted on January 27, 2011
Anthony B. Schutz (Nebraska) has posted Grassland Governance and Common-Interest Communities, published in Sustainability Vol. 2, pp. 2320-2348, 2010. The abstract: In the United States, today?s ranches are engaging in small-scale nature-based endeavors to diversify their income base...

Zoning Out Young Students

Posted on January 27, 2011
Antonia Layard recently posted about new planning restrictions in the UK limiting the number of unrelated people occupying a house. These restrictions are not uncommon in the US, particularly in college towns. For example, Northwestern University students are in an...

Land Use in the State of the Union

Posted on January 26, 2011
I didn't have time to watch it last night, so I asked my students this morning to identify the land use issues in the President's speech. They mentioned two things: high-speed rail, and clean energy. From the Associated Press report,...

Panel on "Premature Subdivisions" for New Partners Conference

Posted on January 26, 2011
As I previously posted, the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference is happening in Charlotte, NC February 3-5. Here's an announcement from the Lincoln Institute about their panel at the conference. Call them the new ghost towns - "premature" subdivisions...

An Interesting Award Competition...

Posted on January 26, 2011
Though its not precisely law-based in its focus, for those interested in key land use issues, this award competition sounds quite interesting: The James D. MacConnell Award recognizes an outstanding, comprehensive planning process, which results in educational facilities that serve...

Scouting, Walking, & Blogging New York

Posted on January 26, 2011
Among the many reasons that I am passionate about the subject of land use law, these three are among the most important: First, it is historical--studying land uses in our cities, towns, and rural areas gives us a sense of...

The Seaside Institute...

Posted on January 25, 2011
The Seaside development in South Walton County, Florida has been one of the higher profile new urban projects over the years. Master-planned by Andres Duany and the DPZ firm, the project has been featured in numerous magazines, case studies, and...

Fellowship at Vermont Law

Posted on January 25, 2011
From Teresa Clemmer: We are recruiting a new law fellow to head up the toxics program within the environmental clinic at Vermont Law School, known as the Partnership for Justice. In collaboration with Toxics Action Center, the law fellow will...

Owley on Conservation Easements at the Climate Change Crossroads

Posted on January 25, 2011
Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted Conservation Easements at the Climate Change Crossroads, forthcoming in Law and Contemporary Problems. The abstract: The essence of a conservation easement as a static perpetual restriction is coming to a head with the understanding that...

The Redevelopment of Haiti...

Posted on January 24, 2011
One of the strongest advocates for sustainable development is none other than Prince Charles of England. His organization, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Development, is a leading advocate and developer of context sensitive development that balances pedestrian needs, vehicular...

8th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference-October 2011 in Beijing

Posted on January 24, 2011
William & Mary Law School has announced that the 2011 Brigham-Kanner Prize will be awarded to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the Eighth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, which will be held Oct. 14 & 15, 2011 in Beijing, China....

First Ibanez, next Bevilacqua: Title Insecurity and the Mortgage Securitization Mess

Posted on January 24, 2011
The most viewed business article today on the Boston Herald website examines the next foreclosure-mess case coming to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and its impact on the title marketability of foreclosed homes there. Francis Bevilacqua paid for a...

Weekend Break...

Posted on January 23, 2011
I'm going to try and post some more light-hearted entries on different weekends this year. Here's a good one that shows why promoting pedestrian-friendly land development is so very important... Enjoy. Chad Emerson, Faulkner

Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

Posted on January 22, 2011
Don Fullerton (Illinois-Finance) has posted Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy on SSRN. Here's the abstract: While prior literature has identified various effects of environmental policy, this note uses the example of a proposed carbon permit system to illustrate and...

Another Interesting Blog...

Posted on January 21, 2011
The nice thing about land use and development is that it's a very multi-disciplinary field of work. Lawyers, architects, engineers, planners, developers, and many others work closely together. Getting to interact with these different people is one of the reasons...

Cox on the Case Against Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)

Posted on January 21, 2011
Prentiss Cox (Minnesota) has posted Keeping Pace?: The Case Against Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs. The abstract: Property Assessed Clean Energy (?PACE?) is a method of public financing for energy improvements through special assessments on local government property taxes...

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