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ORDER BEFORE ZONING
LAND USE REGULATION IN LOS ANGELES
1880 – 1915
by
Kathy A. Kolnick
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PLANNING)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Kathy A. Kolnick
Object Description
| Title | Order before zoning: land use regulation in Los Angeles, 1880-1915 |
| Author | Kolnick, Kathy A. |
| Author email | kolnick@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Planning |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-03-10 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-04-17 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hise, Greg |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sloane, David C. Wolch, Jennifer |
| Abstract | In this dissertation I examine how civic actors defined public welfare and police powers by developing a specific land use regulatory regime at a particular place and time Los Angeles from 1880 to 1915. It is a story about conflicts over land uses and long-established regulatory responses such as fire limits, building codes and single-purpose districting. It goes beyond familiar accounts however to uncover the particularity of local response, how individuals and civic organizations instigated a process of increasingly precise ordinance-writing directed towards particular ethnic groups and industries. The result was a series of regulations that by 1909 divided the entire city into residence and industrial districts, and by 1913 had survived court challenge. The city council used this legal imprimatur both to address continuing land use conflicts surrounding existing development and to attract and direct future growth.; Regulations to control land uses were created as part of a fundamental purpose of local government to maintain and enhance public welfare through state-granted municipal police powers for the general benefit of the entire community. I contend that the roots of United States municipal land use regulation lie deep within the country's urban and legal histories, within ideas about order and disorder, law, property and the balance of individual and community rights. In the United States these are manifested in a legal code, with court oversight when regulations are challenged as going too far. The regulation of land use represents a contested meeting point in the negotiation between private property interests and individual rights on the one hand, and community interests and shared public welfare responsibilities on the other. |
| Keyword | Los Angeles; zoning; police power; community and individual rights; public welfare; planning history |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles County |
| Coverage date | 1880/1915 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1142 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kolnick, Kathy A. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Kolnick-20080417 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Kolnick-20080417.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | ORDER BEFORE ZONING LAND USE REGULATION IN LOS ANGELES 1880 – 1915 by Kathy A. Kolnick A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PLANNING) May 2008 Copyright 2008 Kathy A. Kolnick |
