An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for its Exclusionary Effects

@article{Fischel2004AnEH,
  title={An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for its Exclusionary Effects},
  author={William A. Fischel},
  journal={Urban Studies},
  year={2004},
  volume={41},
  pages={317 - 340}
}
  • W. Fischel
  • Published 1 February 2004
  • History
  • Urban Studies
The paper outlines the 20th-century history of American zoning to explain how home-owners came to dominate its content and administration in most jurisdictions. Zoning's original purpose was to protect home-owners in residential areas from devaluation by industrial and apartment uses that had been made footloose by trucks and buses around 1910-20. Completion of the interstate highway system around 1970 made jobs and employees so mobile that suburbs adopted growth controls to stem the tide. If… 
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