Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

Article Title

National Land-Use Planning in America: Something Whose Time Has Never Come

Authors

Jerold S. Kayden, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Publication Title

Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

Abstract

This Essay discusses the legal and institutional structure for land use planning and regulation in the United States, concluding that the national government has not and does not practice what would constitute national land-use planning as that term is commonly understood in the United States and abroad.

Recommended Citation

Jerold S. Kayden, National Land-Use Planning in America: Something Whose Time Has Never Come, 3 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 445 (2000),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol3/iss1/18