This collection of essays is the initial product of the second meeting of the Environmental Law Collaborative, a group of environmental law scholars that meet to discuss important and timely environmental issues. Here, the group provides an array of perspectives arising from the Fifth Assessment...

Idealization of the single-family detached home and of separation of land uses—and, ultimately, of separation of people by income, race, and ethnicity—contributed significantly to the disappearance in the United States of a range of housing types that had served a larger demographic of...

New York City, like other major cities around the world, has acknowledged the problem of climate change, undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment, created a suite of adaptation and mitigation planning initiatives, and begun to implement policies to decrease the city’s contribution to the...

Cities, states, affordable housing advocates, scholars, and others are looking to Oregon as the earliest adopter of statewide reform of restrictive residential zoning. Oregon’s bold new “middle housing” mandate required cities throughout the state to end the monopoly of single-family...