Abstract
This essay looks at some of the lawyers and judges who were instrumental in the enactment and judicial approval of American zoning laws. They were members of the upper class with an interest in protecting their fine residential neighbourhoods from the location of cheap housing or business nearby. Some of them had other hopes for zoning. A reformer looked to zoning as part of a plan to increase the influence of the business/professional community over the political affairs of the city. A small town lawyer sought a national reputation. A planning advocate hoped that zoning would be a first step in the development of ‘master plans’ to guide the physical growth of cities. A conservative ideologue saw in zoning a scheme to classify the population and to segregate them according to their station in life. Not all these aspirations were to be fulfilled, but they help to explain the initial success of zoning in the legislatures and the courts.
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