The cover of the book, "How Zoning Shapes Our World: Keys to the City," by Sara Bronin.

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World is an eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that controls our world—zoning codes—and a call-to-arms for using them to improve American society at every level.

Author Sara C. Bronin is an architect, attorney, tenured professor, and founder of the National Zoning Atlas. She was born and raised in Houston, the only large city in the United States without zoning.

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About Sara Bronin

Learn more about Sara: a leader, founder, policymaker, and interdisciplinary scholar.

Screenshot of a city zoning map showing various districts, natural boundaries, and land features with a legend for mapping options and features.

National Zoning Atlas

Explore the effort to digitize, democratize, and demystify the country’s zoning codes.

Map showing land use and historic designations in a city area, with various colors indicating protected land, historic sites, and natural features, alongside roads and waterways.

National Preservation Atlas

Discover the nation’s first integrated map of historic places — and their legal protections.

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The cover of Historic Preservation Law (2d ed.) by Sara C. Bronin & J. Peter Byrne.
The cover of Rathkopf's The Law of Zoning and Planning by Sara and Dwight Merriam.
The cover of Land Use Regulation (4th ed.) by Stewart Sterk, Eduardo Peñalver, Sara Bronin, and Jonathan Zasloff.
Book cover titled 'Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell,' 3rd edition, by Sara C. Bronin, Ryan M. Rowberry, and Tad Heuer, with an orange and white background.
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