Bordering on Madness: An American Land Use Tale

by Andrew F. Popper

Bordering on Madness is a novel about a battle between a university and a community over proposed construction of a new campus facility. As the land use fight ripens, the homeowners and university become combatants. The opposition becomes the enemy, depersonalized and reprehensible. From a teaching perspective, the novel allows for discussion of conventional and unconventional land use strategies as well as the development of a number of issues: When...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594605378
• ISBN13: 9781594605376
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What's land use law? Read this book!

This novel gives a great overview of some typical land use issues, cleverly woven into a tale of corruption, revenge, madness -- and love! It's an easy read, and left me thinking about both sides of the story, as well as some real-life land use issues in my own community. I truly enjoyed reading it.

beach reading about a rezoning

This entertaining, easy-to-read book tells a story of a rezoning application leading to murder and mayhem, with crazed NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists fighting a vengeful mobster. Of course, this tale is not particularly realistic; most zoning disputes involve more compromise than this one. And the book's discussion of legal issues is pretty thin; you wouldn't learn the difference between a variance and a rezoning by reading it. But if you're going to read a novel, you might as well read one with some educational content- and this filled the bill for me.