There are many useful books, papers, and websites that are devoted to critical land use issues.  This page features some that have been useful to the OSUE Land Use Team. 

Books

Common Ground Work: A Practical Guide to Protecting Rural and Urban Land. Third Ed. Chagrin Falls, OH: Chadbourne & Chadbourne, Inc.
Phone (216) 543-7303, Fax (216) 543-7160.

Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown, by Roberta Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz, 1998. 

Better, Not Bigger:How To Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community, by Eben V. Fodor, 1999. 
 

 

  Holding our Ground- Protecting America’s Farms & Farmland, by Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers, 1997.
 

 

When City and Country Collide:Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe, by Tom Daniels, 1998.
 

 

Saving American Farmland: What Works, by American Farmland Trust.
 

 

Papers

Bockstael, Nancy E., and Cynthia J. Nickerson. 2000.“Final Report: The Impact of Farmland Preservation Programs.EPA Grant Number: R826617.Article available at: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/final/grants/98/decision/bockstael.html

Land Trust Alliance. 2001. “Purchase of Development Rights: Conserving Lands, Preserving Western Livelihoods” at: http://www.lta.org/resources/pdr.htm
 

 

Kelsey, Timothy W., and Stanford M. Lembeck. 1999. “Purchase of Conservation Easements for Farmland Preservation: Pennsylvania's Experience” at:

http://www.farmlandinfo.org/fic/ft/ohio/kelsey.html
 

 

Rilla, Ellen and Alvin D. Sokolow.2000. “ California Farmers and Conservation Easements: Motivations, Experiences, and Perceptions in Three Counties”.University of California Agricultural Issues at:

http://aic.ucdavis.edu/research1/land.html

Links

American Farmland Trust

 

 

American Planning Association
 

 

Land Trust Alliance
 

 

Ohio Department of Agriculture
 

 

Ohio NEMO Program
 

 

Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy, OSU

The Trust for Public Land