Key to the City, page 27
tax revenues, 3, 18, 95, 160
TDRs (transferable development rights), 51–52, 171
“tenement” dwellings, 6, 63, 111–12, 178
Tennessee. See Nashville, TN
“Tennessee Whiskey” (song), 119
Texas
Crosby, 17, 34, 71–73
Dallas, 104
Newport, a subdivision in Crosby, 19–20, 28
Senate Bill 30 (to remove racially restrictive covenants), 181
Shenandoah, 181
Supreme Court of, 74–75
weather in, 72, 133
See also Austin, TX; Galveston, TX; Houston, TX
Texas Monthly, 57
“third places,” 50–52
Thomas Hooker Brewery, Hartford, 35–37
Times Square, 67, 161
topography, 54
tourism, 24–25, 62, 64, 65, 68, 88, 90–91, 157, 158, 161
hotels, 47, 54–55, 57–58, 64, 68, 101, 152–54, 161–63
traffic management, 2, 24, 44, 58, 65, 108, 137–39, 146–47, 204
transferable development rights (TDRs), 51–52, 171
“transit-oriented development,” 12, 104–7, 171
transportation, 90–108
building Austin’s new airport, 56, 186–87
call for a new infrastructure of “active transportation,” 101, 104
carpooling, 101, 197
Disney Transport, 107
security, 10, 93–94
“transit-oriented” development, 12, 101, 104–7, 171
transportation security, 94
walking distance and access to, 106, 127
See also automobiles; bicycling; pedestrians; public transportation
Tucson, AZ, 11, 130, 131, 132, 134–35, 202
Twain, Mark, 2–3, 10
U.S. Submarine Sandwiches, 16, 180
uncertainty, 19, 51, 61, 83
underwriting guidelines for mortgages, 92
unemployment, 41, 110, 185
unincorporated land, 162, 190
United States federal government
Census, 19, 77, 101, 110, 180, 194
Congress, 36, 82, 119–20. See also legislation and law
Environmental Protection Agency, 117, 141, 195, 200
Federal Highway Administration, 147–49, 196, 204
Federal Housing Administration, 92
federally funded “urban renewal,” 137, 369
Mint, 124
New Deal, 169
Postal Service, 146
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 110
U.S. Department of Commerce, 179
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 75–76, 194
See also United States Supreme Court
United States history
Civil War, 54
colonial life in America, 17, 111
World War I, 20, 30
World War II, 47, 55, 59, 64, 91–92
United States Supreme Court, 8, 30–31, 40–41
Euclid v. Amber, 8, 20, 30–31, 181
on adult use as free speech, 64–67, 163–64, 207
University of California, Berkeley, 80
University of California-Irvine, 66
University of Texas, 56
“upzoning,” 26
“urban farms,” 112–15, 170
Urban Institute, 79
urban planning, 1–11, 166–73
in ancient Greece and Rome, 6, 172
New Urbanism, 153
See also governance; streets and roads; zoning
“urban renewal,” 137, 369
Urban Street Design Guide, 149
“use tables,” 20, 171
utilitas, venustas, and firmitas (utility, delight, and firmness), 172
vacancies/vacant lots, 31–32, 61, 80
variances, 36–38, 61–62, 103, 185, 187
Vaughn, Stevie Ray, 54
vehicle miles traveled, 93, 101
Vermont, 136. See also Burlington, VT
Victorian England, 54, 158
Vincent Scully Prize, 39
violence, 32, 39–40, 45–46
Virginia, 168, 170
Virgo, Herb, 115
Vitruvius, 172
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 124, 126
walking, 20–21, 33, 101, 106, 138, 139, 171, 197. See also pedestrians
Washington, D.C., 68, 85, 104
downtown, 170
Georgetown neighborhood of 167–71
Pennsylvania Avenue, 168
rezoning in, 169
Washington state
Renton, 66
Seattle, 104, 132–33, 170, 202
water use and management
flooding, 24, 54, 62–63, 73, 78, 134–35, 168, 170, 189
hurricanes, 71–72, 153, 158
rain gardens, 141–44
rainwater harvesting, 131–33, 141, 202
swimming pools, 15, 16, 87, 130
Waterfront Park, Burlington, 137, 140
Weinberger, Miro, 141
West Palm Beach, FL, 153
West University Place, a city within Houston, 71–73, 76–81, 87, 189, 192
White communities, 3–5, 17, 40–41, 45, 47, 79–81, 92, 136, 153, 193, 195
Whitney, Guilford H., 24, 25
Williams, Lucinda, 54, 56
Wisconsin, 118, 200
Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, 39, 41, 184, 185
World War I, 20, 30
World War II, 47, 55, 59, 64, 91–92
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 99
Broadacre City, 126–30
on green roofs, 132–33
Taliesin West, 128–30
Wu, Michelle, 114
Wyoming, 88
“yes-in-my-backyard” (YIMBY), 82–83
Young, Neil, 109
“zone lots,” 146–47, 204
zoning, 1–11, 166–73
for accessory uses, 56, 113, 186
advocates of its abolition, 167
art and culture in the city, 39–52
the architecture of a city, 152–65
as art and science, 28
“build-to” lines, 142
comprehensive planning, 77, 81, 102, 182
defined, 5–6
emergency zoning measures, 27–28
enforcement, 30, 58–59, 67–68, 156, 181
“Euclidean” zoning, 20, 30–31, 181
exclusivity vs. inclusivity, 77–78, 84–87
“floor-to-area ratio,” 83, 105
food production in cities, 109–20
“form-based” zoning codes, 61–62, 140–42, 153, 154, 157, 160, 206
frontage requirements, 26, 138–39, 142–43, 154, 162–63, 190, 206
“gentle density” proposals, 82
housing and, 71–89
“inclusionary,” 85–87, 88, 105, 171, 195
land use, 1, 6–7, 19, 20–25. See also agricultural use; commercial use; housing; nightlife
maps, 5–9, 31, 162, 207
nature in the city, 123–35
negative consequences of deregulation, 78
nightlife, 53–68
origins in English common law, 17
other specific zoning techniques, 88
the problem of overcrowding, 6, 19
procedural burdens and hurdles, 28, 83–85, 160
pyramidal zoning schemes, 181
racially motivated origins of, 5–7, 17–18, 40–41, 78
for religious organizations and institutions, 9, 21, 45, 65, 97–98, 168, 188
in search of the Goldilocks Zone, 15–28
setbacks, 73, 76, 113, 142, 154, 171, 190
signage, 6, 10, 147, 161–64, 171, 206, 207
single-use zoning, 25–27, 99. See also mixed-use districts
for small-scale businesses, 29–38
state laws governing, 7, 22, 146, 179, 187
stepbacks, 143, 171, 204
streets and roads, 136–51
“third places,” 50–52
“by a thousand cuts,” 83
transportation and, 90–108
“upzoning,” 26
“use tables” in, 20, 171
vacancies/vacant lots, 31–32, 61, 80
variances, 36–38, 61–62, 103, 185, 187
zoning’s power for good, 5, 172
See also development; governance; maximums and minimums; rezoning
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