Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World is an eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that control our world—zoning codes—and a call to arms to use them to improve American society at every level.

Author Sara C. Bronin is an architect, attorney, tenured professor, and founder of the National Zoning Atlas. She was born and raised in Houston, the only large city in the United States without zoning.