PREVIEW
SHARECourse Info
15 video lessons (67 Mins)
Published 
Trending
Preview Course
Browse Course Chapters
-
1.Introduction
1 min
-
2.Where Does Zoning Come From?
4 mins
-
3.What Zoning Is
4 mins
-
4.What Zoning Isn't
2 mins
-
5.Planning an Affordability Crisis
6 mins
-
6.The Wealth We Lost
4 mins
-
7.Apartheid by Another Name
4 mins
-
8.Sprawl by Design
4 mins
-
9.Toward a Less Bad Zoning: Local Reform
5 mins
-
10.Toward a Less Bad Zoning: Statewide Reform
6 mins
-
11.Toward a Less Bad Zoning: Federal and International Possibilities
4 mins
-
12.The Case for Abolishing Zoning
5 mins
-
13.The Great Unzoned City
5 mins
-
14.Planning After Zoning
5 mins
-
15.Conclusion
1 min
What You Will Learn
- Understand what zoning is and where zoning comes from.
- Understand the relationship between zoning and issues like affordability, opportunity, segregation, and sustainability.
- Understand the many ways that zoning can be—and is being—liberalized.
- Understand the case for zoning abolition, and what a post-zoning approach to land use planning might look like.
Course Description
There’s a malaise haunting land use planning—few now question that the system of zoning we inherited has produced cities that are unaffordable, inequitable, segregated, and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way: zoning reform is in the air. But why stop at mere reform?
As M. Nolan Gray argues in Arbitrary Lines, it’s time for a fundamental rethink of our system of land-use planning. Based on the book, this course explores what zoning is and where it comes from, surveying the costs of our current broken system, and setting out what post-zoning land use planning might look like.
Learn these skills
- History
- Housing
- Land Use
- Law and Policy
- Regional Planning
- Urban Design
- Zoning Codes
