ABSTRACT

Underlying the movement of jobs, housing and population from central cities to their surrounding suburbs is the availability of a relatively vast supply of vacant land. Indeed, in the nation’s twenty largest urban areas, 99 per cent of the vacant land lies outside of core cities. The unavailability of vacant land within central cities necessarily sets reasonably rm limitations on the employment and population capacities of these areas. Conversely, the existence of a seemingly limitless supply of vacant land on the urban periphery practically insures that future urban growth will take place in the fringe areas... .

Exclusionary Zoning