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By Paul Boudreaux

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

Silence

Posted on January 29, 2010
Newsweek on-line has the article "An Unquiet Nation" The subtitle is "Audio ecologist Gordon Hempton talks about America's vanishing quiet spaces, and how our lives can be helped by listening to the silence." Hempton has traveled the world looking for...

"Say Goodbye to the McMansion"

Posted on January 29, 2010
Sorry for the lack of recent posts. I'm finishing up the final touches on my upcoming book "Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World". The book was inspired by an earlier article I published with the...

"Unhappy Hipsters"

Posted on January 28, 2010
Here's another fun website, forwarded to me by my architect husband (the silent 6th blogger, as those of you who follow my posts may have noticed). This is a hilarious blog (if you like humor at the expense of modernist...

Comparative land use on SSRN

Posted on January 28, 2010
Vicki Been's latest SSRN digest of Property, Land Use, & Real Estate Law Abstracts has three articles on non-U.S. land use issues: Maelys De la Ruppelle, Deng Quhen (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)), Li Shi (CASS), & Thomas Vendryes,...

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Nolon and Salking on Teaching Land Use

Posted on January 26, 2010
John Nolon and Patricia Salkin have just published a fantastic piece on teaching land use law and its relationship to Best Practices. The work of the UGA Land Use Clinic is profiled, as is Chad Emerson's teaching method. Here's the...

TDRs in Beaufort Part II

Posted on January 26, 2010
As I mentioned last week on this blog, last week we were in Beaufort, South Carolina working on implementing their Transfer of Development Rights program. Our visit there got some press in the local paper. The article covers a meeting...

Foster on Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemna

Posted on January 26, 2010
Sheila Foster (Fordham) has posted Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemna, forthcoming in the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review. The abstract: This essay is part of a collection of papers focused on the legal, policy and human challenges posed...

Call for Land Use Blog Contributions

Posted on January 26, 2010
The spring law review article submission season is approaching fast. If you have an article that you will be submitting to journals soon, we invite you to publicize it here on the Land Use Prof Blog. We always try to...

President Obama's New Strategy for Urban America

Posted on January 26, 2010
The President spoke recently to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The video is here and the transcript is here. He explains his strategy as follows: Our strategy to build economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, opportunity-rich communities that serve as the backbone...

Rosser on Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources

Posted on January 23, 2010
Ezra Rosser (American U.) has posted Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources, forthcoming in Environmental Law, Vol. 40, 2010. The abstract: This article is an in-depth exploration of the impacts of an Indian tribe deciding to pursue environmentally destructive forms of...

De-mystifying Density...

Posted on January 22, 2010
For whatever reason, the topic of regulating density seems to be one of the most understood areas of land use law. Too often, the simplistic notion that more density is generally bad is employed in a knee-jerk way. In fact,...

Peck and Steadham on Land Description Errors

Posted on January 21, 2010
John C. Peck (Kansas) and Christopher L. Steadham (Kansas) have posted Land Description Errors: Recognition, Avoidance, and Consequences. The abstract: Legal descriptions of land are used in many legal documents, including contracts, deeds, mortgages, and others...

Everybody Must Get Zoned (in Denver)

Posted on January 21, 2010
We've blogged before about land use legal developments in Denver, particularly about its movement toward a comprehensive reform of its zoning code to a form-based code along the lines of what Miami 21 is doing. The proposed new ordinance is...

Nolon on The Land Use Stabilization Wedge Strategy

Posted on January 20, 2010
John R. Nolon (Pace) has posted The Land Use Stabilization Wedge Strategy: Shifting Ground to Mitigate Climate Change, forthcoming in William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol. 34, p. 1, 2009. The abstract: This article describes how local...

Duany's Smart Growth Manual

Posted on January 19, 2010
The Miami Herald has an article/interview about Andres Duany's latest publication, The Smart Growth Manual (Duany, Jeff Speck, & Mike Lydon, McGraw-Hill 2009). From the story: Want to be green? Dump the cul-de-sac. Ban the mall. Leave the Prius at...

Eichholtz, Kok, & Quigley on Green Office Buildings

Posted on January 19, 2010
Piet M.A. Eichholtz (Maastricht--Economics), Nils Kok (Maastricht--Economics), and John M. Quigley (Berkeley--Economics) have posted Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings, forthcoming in the American Economic Review. The abstract: This paper provides the first credible evidence on the economic...

Fair Housing video...

Posted on January 19, 2010
We recently completed the landlord/tenant portion of Property I. I usually focus a great deal on the FHA because it combines statutory and common law into a nice blend for the students. Along those lines, here's an interesting Fair Housing...

Symposium on Climate Change, Water, and Adaptive Law

Posted on January 19, 2010
From our itinerant friend, Tony Arnold, who is visiting at University of Houston this semester: The University of Houston Law Center and the Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal are pleased to announce a Symposium on Climate Change, Water,...

TDRs in Beaufort

Posted on January 19, 2010
Will Cook and I are headed to Beaufort, South Carolina this week to assist in the implementation of their Transfer of Development Rights program. I have been working with various jurisdictions in Georgia on TDRs since the clinic started in...

Revised Landmarks Guide

Posted on January 18, 2010
In case readers missed it last year, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has published the fourth edition of its well-known Guide to New York City Landmarks (John Wiley & Sons). This useful guide covers over 1,200 buildings, 90...

A Bird's Eye View...

Posted on January 18, 2010
Metropolis Magazine has a very interesting article and photo essay from a long-time observer of sprawl from the sky: ?With these pictures, I am interested in exploring the intersection of art and environmental politics,? Gielen says. ?I hope to trigger...

Rule Change for Federal Funding of Local Transit?

Posted on January 18, 2010
Administrative law buffs will take note of the recent news that the Administration Loosens Purse Strings for Transit Projects (NYT). WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration will make it easier for cities and states to spend federal money on public transit...

Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Director Leaves for "Greener Pastures"

Posted on January 17, 2010
James Van Hemert, AICP and sustainability advocate, has left the directorship of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute to become the planning director of a small town in Vancouver, BC and an organic farmer. This according to "DU Today," the...

Cruise Ships & Land Use

Posted on January 17, 2010
The talk in Charleston these days--apart from Boeing's decision to build a new manufacuturing center nearby--focuses primarily on proposed plans to construct an upgraded terminal for cruise lines--specifically for Carnival, doubling the current number of cruises departing from the Holy...

Penalver & Katyal on Property Outlaws

Posted on January 16, 2010
Eduardo M. Penalver (Cornell) and Sonia Katyal (Fordham) have posted on SSRN the front matter and introduction to their new book, Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership (Yale University Press, 2010). Click on the...

Videos for 2009 Smart Growth Achievement Awards

Posted on January 14, 2010
From the folks at US EPA Smart Growth Program The videos for the 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement are now available online! These videos provide a direct look at why this year's winning communities, from rural farmland to...

UGA Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change

Posted on January 13, 2010
Here is a conference announcement from the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and The Dean Rusk Center ?International Human Rights and Climate Change? February 12, 2010, at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia. Thomas...

Daily Sprawl Videos...

Posted on January 12, 2010
Like most areas of the country, the Central Alabama River Region has suffered from the residential and commercial real estate problems. To chronicle specific examples, I've begun a series of informal "windshield" tours of problem projects in our region...

South Carolina Counties Face-Off Over Environmental Issues...

Posted on January 11, 2010
I ran across this recent story from the local Bluffton, South Carolina paper on one of my listservs. The inter-county nature of the issues caught my attention--especially with the state legislature apparently getting involved: In May, Herbkersman introduced a bill...

Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law

Posted on January 11, 2010
The Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law (Utah) has published its new issue, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2009). The articles, with links to the abstracts (the journal also links to the full .pdf articles): Raymond B. Wrabley, Jr., Managing...

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