Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

by Sara C. Bronin

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, ultimately determining how we experience our cities. Yet zoning remains invisible.

In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393881660
• ISBN13: 9780393881660
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"