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    Urban sprawl : a comprehensive reference guide / edited by David C. Soule ; foreword by Neal Peirce.

    • Title:Urban sprawl : a comprehensive reference guide / edited by David C. Soule ; foreword by Neal Peirce.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Soule, David C.
    • Published/Created:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cities and towns--United States--Growth.
      Regional planning--United States.
    • Description:xxii, 570 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-547) and index.
    • ISBN:0313320381 (alk. paper)
      9780313320385
    • Contents:Foreword : recent emergence of sprawl as an issue in American policy debates / Neal Peirce
      1. Defining and managing sprawl / David C. Soule
      2. Historical framework : cities and their regions, suburbanization, and federal policies / David C. Soule
      3. Legal framework : the laws of sprawl and the laws of smart growth / Jay Wickersham
      4. Planning framework : a planning framework for managing sprawl / Ralph Willmer
      5. Economic framework : the economics of sprawl / Zenia Kotval and John Mullin
      6. Social framework : sprawl, race, and concentrated poverty - changing the "rules of the game" / David Rusk
      7. Social framework : planning for a civic society - investing in social infrastructure to develop social capital / Meredith Cooper
      8. Political framework : the politics of sprawl / David C. Soule
      9. Real estate markets and property law / David C. Soule
      10. Transportation systems : market choices and fair prices - five years of Twin Cities research / Curtis Johnson
      11. Atlanta metropatterns : a regional agenda for community and stability / Myron Orfield
      12. Shared freedom : a dynamic standard for equity in the sprawl debate / John Moynihan
      13. impact of sprawl on the environment and human health / Sarah Gardner
      14. cost of sprawl / David C. Soule
      15. Measuring change : databases, build-out analysis, scenario planning, and models / David C. Soule
      16. Taking democracy to scale : tools for planning at the speed of change / Ron Thomas
      17. Sprawl and local government taxation regimes : cause and effect / Ari Bruening, James Hlawek and David C. Soule
      18. Immigration : friend or foe / Alexander von Hoffman and David C. Soule
      19. Governing complexity : the emergence of regional compacts / Douglas Henton, John Melville and John Parr
      20. local arena : changing regulations and standards to address sprawl / Terry Szold
      21. Greenspace and natural resource preservation / Robert Yaro
      22. Regional equity and smart growth : opportunities for advancing social and economic justice in America / Angela Glover Blackwell and Radhika K. Fox.
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