Everything In Its Place ：Social Order and Land Use in America ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Social Order and Land Use in America

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Perin Constance;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400854233

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691028194

Subject： K History and Geography;P96 natural resource science;X3 Environmental Protection Management

Keyword： 环境保护管理,历史、地理

Language： ENG

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Description

Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs.

Originally published in 1977.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. —All's Right with the World? Land Use in American Society

Land Use and Social Order

Culminations: Scarcity, Justice, and Change

The Design of the Study

The Analysis of American Culture

2. The Ladder of Life: From Renter to Owner

Renters, Owners, and Those Between

The Correct Chronology of Life

Sacred House, Mundane Apartments

Moving up the Ladder: The Dangers of Transition

The Sociology of Tenure: Relations with Bankers and Landlords

Status and Stability

Conclusion

3. Domestic Tranquillity: The Sociology of Sprawl and Transition

Categories and Conflict

Compatibility and Income

Social Avoidance and Self-Governance

Cultural Sources of Safety and Danger in Social Space and Social Time

Conclusion

4. Many Wagons, Many Stars: The Uses of Land, Zoning, and Houses

The Consumer as the Producer of Used Housing

Property Values, Appreciation, and Uncertainty

Zoning and Three Property Markets: New, Used, and Old

Criteria for Risk

Conclusion

5. A Place for Everyone : Negotiating Social Space and Social Order

Social Space, Social Structure, and Social Negotiation

Local Control over Social Place

The Rights of Passage: Incorporating Newcomers

Conclusion

6. Principles of Social Order

Appendices

1. Excerpts from "A Guide to the Philadelphia Zoning Ordinance"

2. Excerpts from a Residential Deed Restriction in Houston

3. Excerpts from "A New Zoning Ordinance for Baltimore"

4. A Zoning Dispute Case Study

Tables

1. Personal Tax Liabilities of Renter and Homeowner

2. Ownership Characteristics of Housing Units

3. Estimates of Net Income Tax Subsidy Granted Homeownership

4. Occupied Housing Units by Structural Type

5. Mortgaged and Nonmortgaged Single-Family Homes

6. Single-Family Homes: Age of Principal Owner by Mortgage Status

7. Rental and Vacant Housing-Unit Properties, 1971: Type of Owner and Rental Vacancy Losses as Percent of Potential Receipts

8. Homeownership: Secular Change in All Non-Farm Housing Units (United States 1890-1970)

Bibliography

Index

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