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One side claims that urban sprawl is spurring economicgrowth and creating jobs; the other claims that it is creating trafficjams, destroying cities, and using up too much space too fast. Whichside is right? Find out by consulting the first reference work to jumphead-first into the middle of this controversy, Urban Sprawl. Abalanced overview, the handbook marshals the facts, sorts out thebenefits and the drawbacks, and withholds judgement. This even-handed,up-to-date survey of contemporary urban development in Americaexamines how and why a growing number of citizens are expressingconcern over sprawl. It explains why urban development has been sohaphazard, why farmland losses involve the best soils, how effectivelocal governments and states have been in controlling development,what effect growth restrictions have on housing costs, if sprawlreally threatens our food production, how to achieve smart growth, andmore. The book includes a comprehensive list of organizations activein the debate, an up-to-the-minute bibliography of all the majorworks, and a wide range of electronic resources. ... Read more

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The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl.While this conflict is usually considered to have its origins in the rise of environmental activism during the late 1960s, opposition to urban growth in the Southwest began as early as the economic boom that followed World War II.Evidence of this resistance abounds, but it has been largely ignored by both western and urban historians.Fighting Sprawl and City Hall now sets the record straight, tracing the roots of antigrowth activism in two southwestern cities, Tucson and Albuquerque, where urbanization proceeded in the face of constant protest.Logan tells how each of these cities witnessed multifaceted opposition to post-war urbanization and a rise in political activism during the 1950s.For each city, he describes the efforts by civic boosters and local government to promote development, showing how these booster-government alliances differed in effectiveness; tells how middle-class Anglos first voiced opposition to annexations and zoning reforms through standard forms of political protest such as referendums and petitions; then documents the shift to ethnic resistance as Hispanics opposed urban renewal plans that targeted barrios.Environmentalism, he reveals, was a relative latecomer to the political arena and became a focal point for otherwise disparate forms of resistance.Logan's study enables readers to understand not only these similarities in urban activism but also important differences; for example, Tucson provides the stronger example of resistance based on valuation of the physical environment, while Albuquerque better demonstrates anti-annexation politics.For each locale, it offers a testament to grass-roots activism that will be of interest to historians as well as to citizens of its subject cities. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Urban Sprawl, Supermarket Shortage, List of Edge Cities, Peri-Urbanisation, Daily Urban System. Excerpt:The daily urban system is the area around a city, in which daily commuting occurs. Urban sprawl is the result of an expansion of the daily urban system. A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at This is a list of edge cities by urban area. Asia South Korea Seoul Australia Australia Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Europe England London France Paris Italy Rome North America Canada Montreal Toronto Vancouver Mexico Guadalajara Mexico City United States Most of the following edge cities in the United States are named in Joel Garreau 's Edge City: Life on the New Frontier . The edge cities not included in the book either developed after 1991, were not mentioned, or qualify by other definitions. Atlanta Austin Baltimore Boston item Alewife T Station area item Burlington Mall ... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from State Legislatures, published by National Conference of State Legislatures on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 470 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urban sprawl may be bad for your health. (On First Reading).(Brief Article)
Publication: State Legislatures (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: National Conference of State Legislatures
Volume: 28Issue: 4Page: 9(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Urban Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper develops an analytical and numerical general equilibrium model to compare the efficiency and distributional impacts of development taxes, urban growth boundaries, property taxes and gasoline taxes. From an overall efficiency perspective, development taxes and urban growth boundaries are equivalent instruments and the most effective anti-sprawl policies. If the choice of anti-sprawl instruments is influenced by distributional considerations, our results suggest the preferred instrument is closely related to the location of land. We present distributional impacts of the four policies at the urban city core, the urban suburbs and rural area. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study intends to explore the spatial analytical methods to identify both general trends and more subtle patterns of urban land changes. Landsat imagery of metropolitan Kansas City, USA was used to generate time series of land cover data over the past three decades. Based on remotely sensed land cover data, landscape metrics were calculated. Both the remotely sensed data and landscape metrics were used to characterize long-term trends and patterns of urban sprawl. Land cover change analyses at the metropolitan, county, and city levels reveal that over the past three decades the significant increase of built-up land in the study area was mainly at the expense of non-forest vegetation cover. The spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the land cover changes allowed the identification of fast and slow sprawling areas. The landscape metrics were analyzed across jurisdictional levels to understand the effects of the built-up expansion on the forestland and non-forest vegetation cover. The results of the analysis suggest that at the metropolitan level both the areas of non-forest vegetation and the forestland became more fragmented due to development while large forest patches were less affected. Metrics statistics show that this landscape effect occurred moderately at the county level, while it could be only weakly identified at the city level, suggesting a scale effect that the landscape response of urbanization can be better revealed within larger spatial units (e.g., a metropolitan area or a county as compared to a city). The interpretation of the built-up patch density metrics helped identify different stages of urbanization in two major urban sprawl directions of the metropolitan area. Land consumption indices (LCI) were devised to relate the remotely sensed built-up growth to changes in housing and commercial constructions as major driving factors, providing an effective measure to compare and characterize urban sprawl across jurisdictional boundaries and time periods. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Land Use Policy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Policy and Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Urban sprawl has been identified as a serious threat to forests and other natural areas in the United States, and public concern about the impacts of sprawling development patterns has grown in recent years. The prominence of public concern about sprawl is germane to planners, managers, and policymakers involved in efforts to protect interface forests from urban encroachment because the level of concern will influence the acceptance of policies and programs aimed at protecting forests. A new indicator of public concern about urban sprawl is presented, based on computer content analysis of public discussion contained in the news media from 1995-2001. More than 36,000 news stories about sprawl were analyzed for expressions of concern. Overall concern about sprawl grew rapidly during the latter half of the 1990s. The environmental impacts of sprawl were the most salient concern overall, and concern about loss of open space and traffic problems has increased since 1995 as a share of all sprawl concerns. The method described in this paper provides a new approach for planners and policymakers to monitor change in public attitudes about a wide range of social issues over time. ... Read more

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Urban Sprawl and Cityscapes is a comparative case study focusing on the cities of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario answering several research questions. What specific policy choices are available to municipalities to control urban sprawl? Which public policies have been most successful in controlling urban growth? Discussion focuses on both state and provincial land use goals to control urban sprawl; however, the underlying foundation to manage urban growth depends on a local sense of community and opportunities to rationalize common interests. The dream of both Americans and Canadians is a private estate home in suburbia. The key issues for sprawling suburbs are congested roadways and the need to provide quality water and sewer infrastructure. Cities struggle with school systems that are underfunded and face a heavy tax burden to repair aging infrastructure. Urban policies must be focused on enhancing the quality of life for the whole metropolitan region. Older inner city communities cannot be left behind while tax dollars from senior levels of government pay for problems associate with urban sprawl. ... Read more

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Chapters: Megacity, Gentrification, Ecovillage, Grid Plan, Brownfield Land, Urban Sprawl, White Flight, Megalopolis, Shopping Mall, Urbicide, Accessibility, Terraced House, Comprehensive Planning, Smart City, Unincorporated Area, Intelligent City, Commuter Town, Urban Open Space, Green Belt, Ciclovía, Nimby, Walkability, Conurbation, Blue Banana, Skyway, Urban Agglomeration, Ekistics, Facadism, Edge City, Microdistrict, Land Lot, Village Green, Boomburb, City Block, Subdivision, Charrette, Site Analysis, Aerotropolis, Greenway, Downtown, Residential Area, Permeability, Fused Grid, Impervious Surface, Overdevelopment, Ecumenopolis, Setback, Walking Audit, City Region, Infill, Brownfield Status, United States Micropolitan Area, Transect, County Island, Built Environment, Coving, Plattenbau, Open Space Reserve, Brusselization, Strip Mall, Floor Area Ratio, Placemaking, Build-Out, Fractal City, Civic Center, Metroplex, Back-To-Back Houses, Greyfield Land, Tree Lawn, Polycentrism, Barrioization, Mahala, Plvi, Isovist, Forum, City Network, Terminating Vista, Cartesian Skyscraper, Place Identity, Linear City, Greenfield Status, Abutter, Local Community, Beautification, Protected View, Texaplex, Binary Distribution, Synekism, Community Separator, Severance, Yimby, Quarter, Microtown, Taskscape, Viewshed, Zone of Transition, General Plan, Community Street Review, Greenfield Land, Zone of Visual Influence, District Plan, Office Complex, Elbow Roomers, Commercial Area, Developed Areas, Golden Banana, Urbanology. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 514. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gentrification and urban gentrification denote the socio-cultural changes in an area resulting from wealthier people buying housing property in a less prosperous community. Consequent to gentrification, the average ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=41940 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on May 10, 2007. The length of the article is 784 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Policy options are available to curb urban sprawl.(Focus)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 10, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: A15

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This digital document is a journal article from Regional Science and Urban Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Parcel data on residential land conversion are used to investigate how land use externalities influence the rate of development and modify policies designed to manage urban growth and preserve open space. Several ''smart growth'' policies are found to significantly influence land conversion, including a development clustering policy that concentrates development and generates preserved open space. In addition to directly affecting a parcel's hazard rate of conversion, this policy is found to affect neighboring parcels' conversion by generating a positive open space externality that hastens their development. The implication that the clustering policy could generate a more sprawled pattern of development is explored using spatial simulation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from University of Pennsylvania Law Review, published by University of Pennsylvania, Law School on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 7056 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reflections on urban sprawl, smart growth, and the Fifth Amendment.
Author: Timothy J. Dowling
Publication: University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania, Law School
Volume: 148Issue: 3Page: 873

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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Town and Country Planning Association on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1238 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urban sprawl -- the big picture emerges. (Inside America).
Author: Mike Teitz
Publication: Town and Country Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Town and Country Planning Association
Volume: 71Issue: 3Page: 96(1)

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Urban sprawl. Urban sprawl. Smart growth, Transit-oriented development, White flight, Subdivision (land), Urban runoff, Shopping mall, Urban growth boundary, Urban planning ... Read more