Includes bibliographical references and index

Overview of land resources and uses in the United States -- The interaction of law and geography -- English roots of modern land use controls -- Urban reforms of the nineteenth century -- Private ownership of land -- American municipal geography and law -- Euclidean zoning: origins and practice -- Policy issues of zoning -- Beyond zoning: innovations in local land use control -- Management of the federal lands -- Federal land use programs before 1970 -- The federal environmental decade of the 1970s -- State land use programs

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