Better Way to Zone - Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities

Informationen zum Autor Donald Elliott is an attorney and city planner with extensive experience in real estate and land use planning. He is a senior consultant in the Denver! Colorado! office of Clarion Associates! a national land-use and real estate consulting firm. Elliott is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a former project director for downtown and Gateway zoning for the City and County of Denver. Klappentext "A Better Way to Zone" explores the constitutional and legal framework of zoning! its evolution over the course of the twentieth century! the reasons behind major reform efforts of the past! and the adverse impacts of most current city zoning systems. With insight and clarity! Donald Elliott provides a vision of the future of zoning that is not tied to a particular picture of how cities should "look!" but is instead based on how cities should "operate." Zusammenfassung Nearly all large US cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. However! zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need. It has become so complex that it is often dysfunctional and in the need of an overhaul. This book explains what has gone wrong and how it can be fixed.

Product details

• Authors: Elliott, Donald L. Elliott
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9781597261807
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-180-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Architektur: Öffentliche Einrichtungen, Verwaltungsgebäude, Landschaftsarchitektur und -gestaltung, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Legal Reference / Law Profession, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning