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Even though the Supreme Court struck down race-based land use controls over a hundred years ago in Buchanan v. Warley, it has long been known that zoning continues to create or exacerbate racial and economic segregation. Today, communities across the…

Over the past ninety years, cities and states have increasingly shifted control and oversight over government services from elected officials to quasi-private entities, called "public authorities". Today, public authorities perform thousands of…

State preemption laws strictly limit local governments from regulating beyond their borders. Local governments, however, face a broad spectrum of challenges which cannot be confined to municipal borders. These challenges freely flow in and out of…

Our essay questions how we understand local governance of the environment. From the perspective of those outside a city, the city can be understood through an external perception of what is “good” or “bad” about the city. One might visit a city to…

While many local governments track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, almost all of them exclude the counting of GHGs associated with consumption. These emissions stem from the lifecycle production, pre-purchase transportation, sale, and disposal of…