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Urban Sprawl as a Path Dependent Process, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Glen Atkinson, Ted Oleson. 7 pgs.

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...Urban sprawl as a path dependent process. by Glen Atkinson...irreversible structural change, is a useful method to understand urban sprawl in metropolitan areas. Once...
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The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Inefficiency as a Core Feature of Metropolitan Growth, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by David H. Ciscel. 9 pgs.

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...The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Inefficiency as a Core Feature of...Bradley 1999). This paper is a study of urban sprawl in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Like most...of...
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What Will It Take to Halt Sprawl?, in World Watch » Read Now
by Molly O'Meara Sheehan. 12 pgs.

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...Molly OMeara Sheehan Urban sprawl may pose greater dangers...realize, however, is that urban sprawl now amounts to a far larger...stability than even many anti-sprawl...
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There Goes the Neighborhood, in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy » Read Now
by Michael L. McKinney. 5 pgs.

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...by MICHAEL L. MCKINNEY Urban sprawl must be added to the long list...expansion has many names, including urban sprawl, development, suburbanization...dispersed across the...
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Land Use and the States (Discussion of urban sprawl begins on p. 17) » Read Now
by Robert G. Healy, John S. Rosenberg. 286 pgs.

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...Problems We See 16 Urban Sprawl--And Urban Splatter 17...affecting the quality of life--urban sprawl, environmental protection, farmland...natural and human environments...
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A Preface to Urban Economics (Chap. 8 "Housing and Land Use Patterns: Renewal, Race, and Sprawl") » Read Now
by Wilbur R. Thompson. 419 pgs.

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...Conservation 318 The Price of Urban Sprawl 320 Urban Sprawl as a Problem in Consumer Economics 322 Urban Sprawl as a Price Problem 324 Urban...
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Managing Community Growth: Policies, Techniques, and Impacts (Discussion of urban sprawl begins on p. 130) » Read Now
by Eric Damian Kelly. 250 pgs.

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This work represents the first broad evaluation of the implications and impacts of community efforts to manage or limit rapid growth. It describes the major types of growth management programs, placing them for the first time in four categories. It also includes evaluation of such related techniques...
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This work represents the first broad evaluation of the implications and impacts of community efforts to manage or limit rapid growth. It describes the major types of growth management programs, placing them for the first time in four categories. It also includes evaluation of such related techniques as targeted capital investments, annexation policy, and public land acquisition. Also examined are the various costs and benefits--some obvious and some not--of growth management programs: development requirements, rate-of-growth controls, urban boundaries, mixed housing requirements, and regional planning.
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Towards Smart Growth? The Difficult Implementation of Alternatives to Urban Dispersion, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research » Read Now
by Pierre Filion. 23 pgs.

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...Two. (For recent indictments of urban sprawl, see Benfield, Raimi and Chen 1999...Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining Americas Environment...Books...
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Hot 'Lanta's Urban Expansion and Cultural Landscape Change, in The Geographical Review » Read Now
by Dona J. Stewart. 10 pgs.

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...temperature. Employment growth and urban sprawl are the most obvious impacts of...transformed by a new generation of urban pioneers. In the process of adapting...against...
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Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America ("Zoning Is a Major Cause of Urban Sprawl" begins on p. 223) » Read Now
by Eran Ben-Joseph, Terry S. Szold. 387 pgs.

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Tracing how codes arose when they did, and how they were adapted over time, the authors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning in the past century.
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Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Chap. 5 "'From Spatial Mismatch' to Urban Sprawl") » Read Now
by Myron Orfield. 248 pgs.

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"No study provides greater insights on the causes and consequences of metropolitan polarization. And no study offers a more convincing policy agenda to achieve the political integration of cities and suburbs".--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University. "Myron Orfield's careful and thorough analysis...
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"No study provides greater insights on the causes and consequences of metropolitan polarization. And no study offers a more convincing policy agenda to achieve the political integration of cities and suburbs".--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University. "Myron Orfield's careful and thorough analysis of metropolitan development trends has renewed a vital metropolitan debate".--George Latimer and Donald Fraser, politicians.
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