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Managing Community Growth: Policies, Techniques, and Impacts (Discussion of urban sprawl begins on p. 130)
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by Eric Damian Kelly.
250 pgs.
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...
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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Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Chap. 5 "'From Spatial Mismatch' to Urban Sprawl")
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by Myron Orfield.
248 pgs.
"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...
"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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