Zoning

Elliott Sclar is Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development and Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University. He is a global expert on the finance and governance of transportation and land use, and his book You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization (Cornell, 2000) won the Louis Brownlow Award (2001) and the Charles Levine Prize (2000).Bernadette Baird-Zars works on the implementation of land use and housing initiatives. With support from the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, USAID-OCHA, and the Post-Conflict Cities Lab, her current research at Columbia University examines land practices over political transitions in Mexico, Syria, and the US. Bernadette is a partner at Alarife Urban Associates.Lauren Ames Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of North Texas. Her research examines the governance processes and soocio-spatial impacts of urban transport and land use and has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Lauren holds a doctorate from Columbia University.Valerie E. Stahl’s research explores housing policy and community planning in US cities. Her current project focuses on tenant engagement and resistance in a New York City public housing redevelopment. Valerie holds a master’s degree in Urban Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia University.

• Opening Essay: Is Zoning the Answer? What's the Question? by Jerold S. Kayden Section I: Zoning in Context CHAPTER 1. Zoning matters: Institutions and Action for the 21st century CHAPTER 2. The Six Stories of Zoning CHAPTER 3. The Financialization of Zoning and the Fungibility of Air Rights CHAPTER 4. Rural Zoning: Land Use Policy in a Contested and Neglected Landscape Section II: Zoning in Planning CHAPTER 5. Zoning, Transport, and Urban Growth: An Institutional Perspective CHAPTER 6. Zoning Dollars and Change: Local Economic Development Zones CHAPTER 7. Zoning to Adapt: Climate change zoning and the lessons of environmental zoning efforts past CHAPTER 8. Zoning for inclusion and affordability:US lessons on the opportunities and limits for local housing policy Section III: Zoning in Practice CHAPTER 9. Zoning as a verb: a scaffolding for land use planning practice CHAPTER 10. Racial bias in zoning: the case of Durham, North Carolina, 1945-2014 CHAPTER 11. Zones of Resistance: Local Participatory Institutions in Two NYC Neighborhood Rezonings CHAPTER 12. Analyzing zoning as an institution: methods for scholarship and practice

“The editors of the new volume Zoning: A Guide for 21st-Century Planning have carefully selected a broad range of chapters which attest to the current state of zoning in U.S. urban planning practice. [T]his book is suitable for those who need to learn the basics of zoning, those who use it in practice daily, and those who study its use and effects.” -- Leah Hollstein in Journal of Urban Affairs