Examines the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years Consolidates the findings of leading scholars, diverse methodologies and several disciplines into a cohesive examination of their research Analyzes core questions about the functionality of cities and the goals they should promote via zoning and planning

Autorentext
Prof. Amnon Lehavi (Yale, J.S.D) is the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate, Radzyner Law School, and Academic Director, Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.
Prof. Lehavi (ed.) is a leading authority on property, real estate, land use controls, international economic law, and law and globalization. He is the author of The Construction of Property: Norms, Institutions, Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the editor of Gated Communities (Nevo Press, 2010). Prof. Lehavi has published extensively in top journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Yale Journal of International Law. He has won numerous prizes, including the 2007 Tzeltner Award for an outstanding young scholar and the 2008, 2010, and 2014 IDC Award for excellence in scholarship. Prof. Lehavi served as the Chairperson of the Israeli Association of Private Law (2012-2013) and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2013-14). Prof. Lehavi has been recently appointed as the 2016 Global Law Visiting Chair at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: History of US Zoning in Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 2: North American Zoning: Real Estate Regulation, Past and Present.- Chapter 3: Market Externalities and the Evolution of Zoning.- Chapter 4: Beyond Zoning: Making A Place for Community Well-Being.- Chapter 5: Poor Zoning: The World Bank and Urban Planning Reform in India.- Chapter 6: Community Benefits Agreements: Flexibility and Accountability in the Land-Use Regulation Matrix.- Chapter 7: Zoning After the Berlin Wall: A Place-Based Policy Evaluation.- Chapter 8: Why Did Regional Income Convergence in the US End: The Role of Zoning.- Chapter 9: TTIP and CETA - Frivolous Claims to Democratic Legitimacy of Urban Development and Bona Fide Land Policies.- Chapter 10: Social Topographies- Rethinking Zoning Strategies.- Chapter 11: Checks and Balances in Planning Decentralization: Lessons from the Ontario Planning System.- Chapter 12:Revitalizing Land Use Law.