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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Zoning: Its Costs and Relevance for the 1980s
Zoning and other land use controls are so much a part of contemporary life that even the most ardent free enterprises usually take for granted the sanctity of such controls in the protection of the urban residential environment. This provocative book raises a number of basic questions about zoning, specifically about recent variants of land use controls. It forthrightly challenges underlying assumptions and principles at the root of the zoning philosophy and is required reading for all those concerned with the future of cities.
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Michael Goldberg
Michael A. Goldberg is Visiting Scholar (1979/80), Harvard University and a Professor in the Urban Land Economics Division, Faculty ofCommerce and Business Administration, at the University of British Columbia. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941, Professor Goldberg received his B.A. in Economics (cum laude) from Brooklyn College in 1962. His post-graduate work was done at the University of California (Berkeley), where he received his M.A. degree in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1968. He joined the University of British Columbia in 1968.Professor Goldberg is author of numerous books and articles that have been published in Canada, the United States, and Japan. His recent publications include: Residential Developer Behaviour 1975: A Detailed Analysis and Findings' (with D.D. Ulinder), in Housing: It's Your Move (Vancouver: Urban Land Economics Division, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, 1976}; Recent Perspectives in Urban Land Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard U. Ratcliff and Paul ·F. Wendt (ed.), (Vancouver: Urban Land Economics Division, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, 1976); and Simulating Cities: Process, Product and Prognosis, Joumal of the American Institute of Planners (1977). Professor Goldberg was a contributor to Urban Housing Markets: Recent Directions in Research and Policy, Larry S. Bourne and John R. Hitchcock (eds.), published by the University of Toronto Press, 1978. Two of his papers have appeared in earlier Fraser Institute publications: Housing and Land Prices in Canada and the U.S. in Public Property? The Habitat Debate Continued, Lawrence B. Smith and Michael Walker (eds.), 1977; and The BNA Act, NHA, CMHC, MSUA, etc.: 'Nymophobia' and the On-going Search for an Appropriate Canadian Housing & Urban Development Policy, in Canadian Confederation at the Crossroads: The Search for a Federal-Provincial Balance, Michael Walker (ed.), 1978.… Read more Read Less… -
Peter Horwood
Peter J. Horwood is a freelance consultant in the urban land economics field engaged in work for both the publicand private sectors. His graduate studies concentrated on urban housing market research. He received his B.A. and M.Sc. (Bus.Admin.) degrees in Urban Land Economics from the University of British Columbia.His previous publications examined foreign investment in land, the factors affecting housing demand, and the residential conveyance process in Canada. Mr. Horwood was a member of the University Endowment Lands Study Team and the Greenspan Task Force on Residential Land, and editor of Foreign Investment in Land - Alternative Controls, published by the University of British Columbia in 1976.… Read more Read Less…
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