At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in state and local government policy. Primarily the province of local government until the 1970s, state governments have become increasingly involved in land use planning. In the 1990s Vice President Gore's promotion of "Smart Growth" has brought it into the national arena, while President Clinton has devoted considerable time to land use, land preservation, and urban development issues. Critically examining government land use policies and arguments supporting them, the contributors explore market alternatives to government land use planning. Despite the apparent popularity of government restrictions on land use, the scholars writing for this volume advocate a more market-based approach. Showing that the problems of sprawling development have been misunderstood and overstated, they argue that land use policy can be better improved through market mechanisms than by the central planning of land use bureaucracies.
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RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is also Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute, a Tallahassee-based think tank specializing in issues facing state governments. The author of eight books, his primary areas of research are public finance and economic analysis of policy issues.
SAMUEL R. STALEY is Director of the Urban Futures Program at Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, A Line in the Land: Urban-Growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability, The "Vanishing Farmland" Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda.
SAMUEL R. STALEY is Director of the Urban Futures Program at Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, A Line in the Land: Urban-Growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability, The "Vanishing Farmland" Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda.
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The United States saw major changes in land-use patterns in the last half of the twentieth century, largely as a result of rising incomes, widespread automobile ownership, and the more decentralized living patterns that automobile ownership allows. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
farmland loss rates, growth management process, competitive service delivery, electronic odometer, leapfrog development, housing price appreciation, median lot size, sprawl policy, local comprehensive plans, growth management act, concurrency requirement, resilient approaches, smarter growth, lower density development, growth management legislation, conventional transit, higher density development, smart growth, highway expenditures, cropland loss, growth management policies, decentralized development, growth boundaries, urban traffic congestion, water quality degradation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, World War, Clean Water Act, San Diego, San Francisco, Soviet Union, New Jersey, Met Council, Metro Areas Contain, Gulf of Mexico, Anthony Downs, Department of Transportation, Kansas City, National Resources Inventory, Orange County, South Carolina, Texas Transportation Institute, Washington County, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Edifice Complex, North Carolina, San Antonio New!
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farmland loss rates, growth management process, competitive service delivery, electronic odometer, leapfrog development, housing price appreciation, median lot size, sprawl policy, local comprehensive plans, growth management act, concurrency requirement, resilient approaches, smarter growth, lower density development, growth management legislation, conventional transit, higher density development, smart growth, highway expenditures, cropland loss, growth management policies, decentralized development, growth boundaries, urban traffic congestion, water quality degradation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, World War, Clean Water Act, San Diego, San Francisco, Soviet Union, New Jersey, Met Council, Metro Areas Contain, Gulf of Mexico, Anthony Downs, Department of Transportation, Kansas City, National Resources Inventory, Orange County, South Carolina, Texas Transportation Institute, Washington County, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Edifice Complex, North Carolina, San Antonio New!
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- Public Policy by Lilliard E. Richardson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 236, and Back Matter
- Political Economy (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Economics) by Nassau William Senior in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Revised Edition) by Myron Orfield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Searching for Safety by Aaron Wildavsky on page 80, and Back Matter
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