Current Research
The team at the Legal Constructs Lab supports the following ongoing, interdisciplinary research in property, land use, historic preservation, and energy, inquiring into how law can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. Click here to view prior research.
Project
Can a Machine Learn to Read Zoning Codes?
A legal technology project to automate analysis of district-specific regulations.
Project
National Zoning Atlas
An ongoing effort to translate and standardize the country’s zoning codes into a single online resource.
Project
A Local Historic Preservation Law Census: Where, Why, and What
A project documenting the existence and analyzing the content of American local preservation law.
Project
Zoning by a Thousand Cuts
A deep dive into the first statewide zoning atlas, identifying hidden regulatory barriers to new housing.
Project
The Land Use Volume of the Fourth Restatement of Property Law
The once-in-a-generation legal treatise relied upon by judges and attorneys, via the American Law Institute.
Project
Legal Issues Raised by Living Building Materials
An exploration of novel issues raised by mechanically adaptive living building materials.
Project
The Law of Planning and Zoning Treatise
A leading land use resource for practitioners, updated quarterly with new cases and materials.
Project
How Minimum Parking Requirements Hinder Housing Production
A spatial analysis of the elimination of local parking mandates, when all other regulations remain constant.
Project
New York Zoning Atlas
A zoning atlas initiated at Cornell University, expanding collaboration to external partners.
Contact
Sara C. Bronin
Professor, AAP
Associate Faculty, Law
Website | Publications
sara.bronin@cornell.edu
Address
Legal Constructs Lab
129 Sibley Dome
Cornell College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
Ithaca, NY 14853
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