This landmark work is the first book-length treatment of "regulatory taking" the controversial legal concept that governmental regulation of private property use can amount to a "taking" that requires compensation. Since a series of U.S. Supreme Court holdings in 1987, courts increasingly have given serious consideration to a rapidly expanding body of such claims. Yet, until now, there has been no detailed analysis of this clash between an expanding scope of land use regulations & the increased assertiveness of property owners. Comprehensive in scope, Regulatory Takings covers such diverse topics as: wetlands regulations; exactions on development; free speech rights in shopping malls & other private property; the Endangered Species Act; "exclusionary" zoning; asset seizures; rent controls.