In an 8–1 decision recitedad nauseum by land use lawyers ever since, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. acknowl-edged that public regulation of private property without compensation is neces-sary and constitutional under certain circumstances: “The general rule at least is,that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too... See more

During the two decades between the founding of Hull House and the 1909Plan of Chicago, the city doubled in population from one to two million,25 withthe majority of newcomers being low-income migrants from Europe and ruralAmerica. While both Jane Addams and Daniel Burnham shared a progressive-minded zeal to “improve” the city of Chicago, their... See more