Associate Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D. Harvard Law School
nmarantz@uci.edu
Department:
Urban Planning and Public Policy
Specializations:
Land-use & environmental law, housing, transportation, state and local government
Summary of Research Interests
My research and teaching focus on the impacts of law, politics, and planning on housing affordability and access to various kinds of resources and opportunities. Much of my research empirically analyzes the connection between land use regulation and socioeconomic disparities, connecting legal theory with spatial and quantitative analysis. I also analyze the impact of changes in environmental laws and institutions of local governance on planning practice and metropolitan development patterns, as well as the ways that non-lawyers (particularly urban planners) understand and use legal materials.
Selected Publications
- Marantz, Nicholas J., Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Youjin B. Kim. 2023. “Overseeing Infill: How State Agencies Can More Effectively Monitor Local Land Use Administration,” Journal of the American Planning Association, DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2023.2255580
- Marantz, Nicholas J., Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Youjin B. Kim. 2023. “Where Will Accessory Dwelling Units Sprout Up When a State Lets Them Grow? Evidence From California,” Cityscape. 25(2), 107-118.
- Lewis, Paul G. and Nicholas J. Marantz. 2023. Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
- Biber, Eric, Giulia Gualco-Nelson, Nicholas J. Marantz, and Moira O’Neill. 2022. “Small Suburbs, Large Lots: How the Scale of Land-Use Regulation Affects Housing Affordability, Equity, and the Climate,” Utah Law Review. 2022(1), 1-62.
- Marantz, Nicholas J. and Paul G. Lewis. 2021. “Jurisdictional Size and Residential Development: Are Large-Scale Local Governments More Receptive to Multifamily Housing?” Urban Affairs Review, DOI: 10.1177/1078087420988598
- Marantz, Nicholas J. and Huixin Zheng. 2020. “State Affordable Housing Appeals Systems and Access to Opportunity: Evidence From the Northeastern United States,” Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1712612
- Camacho, Alejandro E. and Nicholas J. Marantz. 2020. “Beyond Preemption, Toward Metropolitan Governance,” Stanford Environmental Law Journal. 39(2), 125-198.
- Lewis, Paul G. and Nicholas J. Marantz. 2019. “What Planners Know: Using Surveys About Local Land Use Regulation to Understand Housing Development.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 85(4), 445-462. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1643253
- Marantz, Nicholas J. and Nicola Ulibarri. 2019. “The Tensions of Transparency in Urban and Environmental Planning.” Journal of Planning Education & Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19827638
- Marantz, Nicholas J. and Huixin Zheng. 2019. “Exclusionary Zoning and the Limits of Judicial Impact.” Journal of Planning Education & Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X18814924
- Camacho, Alejandro E., Melissa Kelly, Nicholas J. Marantz, and Gabriel Weil. 2019. “Mitigating Climate Change Through Transportation and Land Use Policy.” Environmental Law Reporter. 49(5), 10473-10492.
- Marantz, Nicholas J. 2018. “Drift and Conversion in Metropolitan Governance: The Rise of California’s Redevelopment Agencies.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 40(7), 901-922. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2017.1421434
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Marantz, Nicholas J. and Harya S. Dillon. 2018. “Do State Affordable Housing Appeals Systems Backfire? A Natural Experiment.” Housing Policy Debate. 28(2), 267-284. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1362021
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Marantz, Nicholas J. 2015. “What Do Community Benefits Agreements Deliver? Evidence From Los Angeles.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 81(4), 251-267. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2015.1092093
- Fisher, Lynn M., and Nicholas J. Marantz. 2015. “Can State Law Combat Exclusionary Zoning? Evidence from Massachusetts.” Urban Studies 52(6), 1071-1089. DOI: 10.1177/0042098014534906
- Marantz, Nicholas J. 2012. “Review: China’s Pan-Pearl River Delta; Regional Cooperation and Development.” Journal of the American Planning Association 78(1), 111-112. DOI:10.1080/01944363.2011.644209
- Marantz, Nicholas J., and Eran Ben-Joseph. 2011. “The Business of Codes: Urban Design Regulation in an Entrepreneurial Society.” In Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process, edited by Steve Tiesdell and David Adams. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.