Ideological boundaries are nebulous compared with those land divisions precisely marked out by surveyors. Both types of divides were on display in a…
Author: Lloyd Pilchen, PS, Esq.
06.10.2023
When Worlds Collide
Mexica, Mercedes, and Indigenous Voices in Maps
“All maps state an argument…” —J. B. Harley, 1989 There’s a popular poster of the world composed of satellite images, with continents arrayed…
12.04.2022
Law Land Lines: Property Law and the Transformation of Seattle’s Terrain
Scripture envisages a time when “Every valley shall be lifted up/ every mountain and hill made low / and the uneven ground shall…
01.29.2022
Exhibition of Jo Mora’s Whimsical Map Delights
Pass between stone sphinxes and cross the sunlit space beneath the muraled rotunda of the Los Angeles Central Library and you’ll arrive at…
04.18.2021
Law. Land. Lines: Waterways & Earth Days, Part 2
By the end of the nineteenth century, civil engineers had created the Suez Canal, London’s sewers, and the steel-truss Eads Bridge across the…
11.29.2020
Waterways & Earth Days Part 1
About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
07.12.2020
In the Heights
Remember the suspense over whether the new World Trade Center was the tallest building in the Americas? At a numerically patriotic 1,776 feet,…
09.22.2017
Parcels, Takings, and Environmental Protection in Murr v. Wisconsin
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05.22.2010
When Two Become One – A Look at the Law of Merger of Adjoining Parcels
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12.11.2007
Roads That Come Up Short Under The Law
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