• Quarterly newsletter: With up-to-date articles on current land use cases, innovative legal techniques and many departmental activities “This guide is extremely practical and includes techniques that can enable new urbanism to overcome the obstacles erected by the legal system, the political apparatus and the daily difficulties of community life. Each chapter is self-contained, and there are case studies and dozens of sidebars, so you can read the book from start to finish or jump in and out. This book is so informative that new planners will soon wonder how they could have done without it. (New Urban News, September 2008) This course explores the different ways in which law seeks to resolve conflicts between land uses and to plan and regulate the effects of different land use patterns. Topics include common law; national, regional and local planning; Zoning; environmental controls; growth management; the preservation of historical monuments; restrictions on residential development; and constitutional limits on land use regulation. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the political and economic context of land use law. This course is designed for students interested in learning about, or perhaps one day, in the field of community economic development, as advocates and/or consultants on a full-time or pro bono basis. The skills developed cover the business/legal divide, exposing students to content topics ranging from start-ups, real estate finance and development, to regulatory frameworks for microcredit, affordable housing, and developing new markets. The students` work focuses on the problems faced by companies concerned with the economic development of the community and offers a unique opportunity to understand the industry from the inside. Community activists and various experts in economic development in law, economics and public policy are invited to discuss their work during the semester and give students the opportunity to develop and/or expand their networks in the field. Doris S. Goldstein is a lawyer whose practice focuses on emerging urban planning communities, beginning with Seaside, Florida, in the 1980s.

In addition to her ongoing commitment to Seaside, Ms. Goldstein represents developers of mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly communities across the county. His work extends beyond the development phase to operational issues, giving him hands-on experience and unique insights. Daniel K. Slone is a partner at the law firm of McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia. As a consultant and legal advisor, he represents developers, green businesses and communities around the world, advising them on neighborhood development, environmental issues, land use, utilities, and complex commercial and real estate issues. Mr. Slone is a National Advisor to the U.S.

Green Building Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism. This seminar will examine a range of legal and policy issues currently affecting American cities, including housing and land use, concentrated poverty and racial segregation, increased efforts to monitor crime, recent efforts to regulate harmful products (sugar-sweetened beverages, tobacco, weapons, unhealthy foods), innovative efforts to promote economic development, and strategies to develop poverty. social development. Justice. We will analyze the underlying social, economic and political causes of these problems and the responses of policymakers and courts. We will examine the limitations of existing legal doctrines regarding the powers of local governments at a time when local government entities are called upon to assume more and more responsibility for improving society and regulating the behavior of citizens in local jurisdictions. Grades are based on active participation in class discussion and a research paper. The last weeks of the course will be devoted to presentations of their research by students. Students who wish to take advantage of this course to meet higher-level writing requirements must enroll in the three-credit section.

This course dissects the most important commercial real estate documents – loan documents, contracts and commercial leases – focusing on drafting and negotiating each of them. The course will examine the interaction between substantive issues and practical trade and strategic issues in determining the content of these documents. Topics covered include the economics of the transaction, the rights and obligations of the parties, and the consequences of default. An important part of the course will focus on the role of negotiations in the process of establishing the terms of the document and will include mock negotiations and role plays. This mini-course focuses on money and finance – the basics of pricing and lending; And how people use other people`s money, and sometimes their own money, to make (or lose) money in the financial markets. Particular attention is paid to commercial real estate loans and commercial mortgage-backed securitizations, how Wall Street generates its profits from the process, and the factors that caused the economic turmoil in financial markets from 2008 to 2011 and the slow recovery from the Great Recession.