I have been teaching at numerous law schools since 2000, and have written extensively on issues relating to urban and suburban development.
Articles
Sprawl in Europe And America, San Diego Law Review (2009)
Rebuts the "Inevitability Theory of Sprawl"- the common argument that anti-sprawl policies would be futile...
Five Myths About Sprawl , Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal (2007)
In Sprawl: A Compact History, Robert Bruegmann, an art historian, has painted a superficially convincing...
How Government Regulation Forces Americans Into Their Cars: A Case Study, Widener Law Journal (2007)
Shows how zoning law in Jacksonville contributes to automobile dependence.
Planners Gone Wild: The Overregulation of Parking (with Shane Cralle), William Mitchell Law Review (2007)
A review of Donald Shoup's book, The High Cost of Free Parking (to be published...
YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL: LESS SPRAWL AND PROPERTY RIGHTS TOO, Temple Law Review (2007)
The article describes two visions of suburban development, a “smart growth” vision which critiques automobile-dependent...
Op-Eds
Public Transit: Myth and Reality, Folio Weekly (2009)
Rebuts myth that public transit is inherently unpopular by pointing out that where development is...
Keep It Local, Folio Weekly (2009)
Criticizes state-imposed limits on local taxation on the ground that state governments have no legitimate...
A Tale of Two School Systems, Folio Weekly (2009)
Explains that suburban schools are more popular than urban schools primarily due to their more...
How Dangerous Is Jacksonville?, Folio Weekly (2008)
Compares Jacksonville's murder rate with those of several other cities, using various techniques. Concludes that...
The Road Not Taken, Folio Weekly (2008)
Defends Jacksonville's annexation of its Duval County suburbs, and compares Jacksonville's post-annexation fate with that...
Works in Progress
The Public Interest And The Takings Clause, ExpressO (2009)
The Supreme Court has held that when a government regulation reduces the value of property,...
Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, To be published in University of Louisville Law Review (2009)
[to be published at University of Louisville Law Review] In recent decades, American state and...
Speeches
A Libertarian Smart Growth Agenda, Midwest Political Science Association conference (2009)
Discusses a variety of policies that both limit sprawl and enhance, rather than reducing, landowners'...
How Zoning Causes Sprawl, Widener University School of Law, conference on "Squaring the Circle on Sprawl" (2007)
Links sprawl to zoning and other land use regulation, using Jacksonville as a case in...
Laws That Create Sprawl , American Lung Association, Bloomington Transportation Options for People, Marion County Health Department (2006)
A speech explaining how land use regulations lead to automobile-dependent development, and suggesting a range...
How Government Regulation Creates Sprawl: Jacksonville As A Case Study , Florida Coastal School of Law Environmental Summit (2006)
A PowerPoint presentation that shows how zoning, parking and street design regulations make Jacksonville one...
National League of Cities speech on zoning , National League of Cities (2001)
A brief outline of how land use regulation causes sprawl; probably a bit less sophisticated...