Shopping Centers and Land Controls

I In order to get this impression one need only examine casually the reports of house construction, the quarterly reports of large corporations, and the new appliances and automobiles of one's neighbors.2 Morris, Shopping Centers -The Role of the Lawyer, 1955 U. ILL.L.F. 681.The author states that the earliest shopping center existed in Baltimore in 1907; the first planned centers were built in the 1920's.As of the date of the article, 1,100 centers were in operation and 2,200 were in the planning or building stage.3 E.g., in Valparaiso, Indiana (pop.15,000), two separate requests have been submitted to have several acres on the city's fringe rezoned to permit a shopping center.The "strip" type center is becoming a familiar sight in smaller communities although it apparently is not favored by planners.See Kneier, The Future of Zoning, 1954 U. ILL.L. F. 281, 297.