The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines

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The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines

Author(s): Lee Anne Fennell (Author)

  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2009
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 310 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0300122446
  • ISBN-13: 9780300122442

Book Description

The Unbounded Home grapples with a core metropolitan reality – that the value and meaning of a home extend beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, transportation, neighbours, neighbourhood aesthetics, and even market conditions. Lee Anne Fennell unpacks the resulting tension between the homeowner’s desire for personal autonomy at home and the impulse to control what happens in surrounding areas to safeguard the home’s value. The stakes are high; this conundrum carries implications for nearly every facet of residential life, including the many neighbourhoods in the United States that are segregated by race and social class. Fennell shows how a new understanding of homeownership and innovations that increase the flexibility of property law can address critical issues of neighbourhood control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Lee Anne Fennell is one of the most sophisticated property theorists writing today. She has produced a serious book, full of ideas that will change how we think about property, local government, and, most importantly, the home. Fennell shows brilliantly how one can reconfigure our current property arrangements so that they better align with the interests and incentives of homeowners living in a highly urbanized metropolitan area. The Unbounded Home is an extremely important and timely book. It brings our understandings of what property is and what it does up-to-date.”―Richard C. Schragger, University of Virginia School of Law

Richard Schragger

“Fennell argues persuasively for a more fluid conception of residential property ownership. . . . anyone with an interest in law and economics will profit from the book’s entertaining and informative examples.”–Harvard Law Review

Harvard Law Review

About the Author

Lee Anne Fennell is professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.

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