Racial Justice in American Land Use
Cambridge University Press, October 2025

More than a century after the Supreme Court struck down racial zoning in Buchanan v. Warley, American land use law still bears the deep imprint of segregation, writes Craig Anthony “Tony” Arnold in his book Racial Justice in American Land Use. As the book’s co-lead editor and author of four chapters, Arnold leads a cross-disciplinary examination of how facially neutral policies have continued to produce unequal housing, environmental conditions, and community vulnerability.

The Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use Affiliated Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Louisville and director of the Resilience Justice Project, Arnold brings together social history, legal theory, and public policy to argue for systemic change. The volume also includes a chapter by Arnold’s Stanford Law classmate Audrey McFarlane, JD ’90, the Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.