TY - BOOK AU - Hirt,Sonia TI - Zoned in the USA: the origins and implications of American land-use regulation SN - 9780801453052 PY - 2014///] CY - Ithaca, London PB - Cornell University Press KW - Land use KW - United States KW - Planning KW - History KW - City planning N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-234) and index; An American model of land-use control -- America's housing trademark -- How the system works -- How others do it -- Roots -- American beginnings in comparative perspective -- The formative years of American zoning -- The promises and paradoxes of residential zoning N2 - In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt explores municipal zoning from a comparative and international perspective, drawing on archival resources and contemporary land-use laws from England, Germany, France, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Japan to challenge assumptions about American cities and the laws that guide them. -- from back cover ER -