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Vacant, Abandoned, and Distressed Property Legal Research Guide: Books and Legal Treatises

The focus of this guide is the search for local land use laws relevant to vacant, abandoned, and distressed properties. This research guide includes links to primary and secondary sources.

Publications From the Catalog

Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis by ed. by M. Paloma Pavel
Call Number: HT167 .B675 2009
ISBN: 0262012685
Bringing Buildings Back: from abandoned properties to community assets : A Guidebook for Policymakers and Practitioners by Alan Mallach
Call Number: HD7293 .M258 2010
ISBN: 0813549868
Building Healthy Communities: A Guide to Community Economic Development For Advocates, Lawyers, and Policymakers by Edited by Roger A. Clay, Jr. and Susan R. Jones
Call Number: KF5730 .B85 2009
ISBN: 1604424982
Codifying New Urbanism by Congress for the New Urbanism Staff (Contribution by); Paul Crawford
ISBN: 1932364005
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Foreclosing The Dream: How America's Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs by William H. Lucy
Call Number: HD7293 .L83 2010
ISBN: 1932364781
Land Banks and Land Banking by Frank S. Alexander
Call Number: Available Online
ISBN: 0615471765
A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers, and Architects by Daniel K. Slone and Doris S. Goldstein; with W. Andrew Gowder
Call Number: KF5692 .S57 2008
ISBN: 0470053291
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
Call Number: HT352.U6 D86 2009
ISBN: 0470041234

Relevant Subject Headings

The following Library of Congress Subject Headings may be useful when searching in the Pace University Library Catalog:

City Planning And Redevelopment Law
City planning and redevelopment law is used in combination with other subheadings, such as:
City planning and redevelopment law -- United States -- Periodicals
City planning and redevelopment law -- United States -- States

Land Use, Planning and Zoning

American Law of Zoning (5th ed.) by Patricia E. Salkin
Call Number: KF5698 .A76 also available on Westlaw.
Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law (2d ed.) by Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer and Thomas E. Roberts
Call Number: KF5692 .J84 2007 (Reserve) Also available on Westlaw
Rathkopf's the Law of Zoning and Planning (4th ed.) by Arden H. Rathkopf and Daren A. Rathkopf
Call Number: KF5698 .R37 also available on Westlaw
ISBN: 0314172505
Zoning and Land Use Controls by Originally by Patrick J. Rohan; Eric Damian Kelly, General Editor
Call Number: KF5698 .R63 1977 also available on Lexis
Zoning and Planning Law Handbook by Edited by Patricia E. Salkin
Call Number: KF5697.A152 Z66
Law of Distressed Real Estate by Baxter Dunaway
Call Number: KF1524 .D85 also available on Westlaw
Zoning and Planning Deskbook by Douglas W. Kmiec, Katherine Kmiec Turner
Call Number: KF5698 .K592 also available on Westlaw