Land Use and Society, Revised Edition

Geography, Law, and Public Policy

Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains the strengths of the earlier version while introducing a hof new topics and insights on the twenty-first century metropolis. This new edition of Land Use and Society devotes greater attention to urban land use and related social issues with two new chapters tracing American city and metropolitan change over the twentieth century. More emphasis is given to social justice and the environmental movemand their respective roles in shaping land use and policy in recdecades. This edition of Land Use and Society by Rutherford H. Platt is updated to reflect the 2000 Census, the mrecSupreme Court decisions, and various topics of currinterest such as affordable housing, protecting urban water supplies, urban biodiversity, and "ecological cities." It also includes an updated conclusion that summarizes some positive and negative outcomes of urban land policies to date.