By approaching zoning from a social science and planning perspective, this text engages students of urban planning, policy and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice.

Opening Essay: Is Zoning the Answer? What's the Question? by Jerold S. Kayden Section I: Zoning in Context CHAPTER 1. Zoning matters: Institutions and Action for the 21st century CHAPTER 2. The Six Stories of Zoning CHAPTER 3. The Financialization of Zoning and the Fungibility of Air Rights CHAPTER 4. Rural Zoning: Land Use Policy in a Contested and Neglected Landscape Section II: Zoning in Planning CHAPTER 5. Zoning, Transport, and Urban Growth: An Institutional Perspective CHAPTER 6. Zoning Dollars and Change: Local Economic Development Zones CHAPTER 7. Zoning to Adapt: Climate change zoning and the lessons of environmental zoning efforts past CHAPTER 8. Zoning for inclusion and affordability:US lessons on the opportunities and limits for local housing policy Section III: Zoning in Practice CHAPTER 9. Zoning as a verb: a scaffolding for land use planning practice CHAPTER 10. Racial bias in zoning: the case of Durham, North Carolina, 1945-2014 CHAPTER 11. Zones of Resistance: Local Participatory Institutions in Two NYC Neighborhood Rezonings CHAPTER 12. Analyzing zoning as an institution: methods for scholarship and practice