A feminist analysis of gender and residential zoning in the united states

Marsha Ritzdorf

pp. 255-279

in: Irwin Altman, Arza Churchman (eds), Women and the environment, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

Beginning in 1985, I published a series of articles addressing the relationship between land use and zoning issues and the changing demographics of American society. Implicit in all those pieces, and explicit in some, was the important relationship between changing gender roles and municipal land-use law. Specifically, I addressed the power of municipal zoning ordinances to spatially direct family lives, the location of support systems, and the very composition of intimate household arrangements.