Title & Author:

Remaking American communities : a reference guide to urban sprawl / edited by David C. Soule ; foreword by Neal Peirce.

Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Description:

xxii, 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Our sustainable future

Notes:
Originally published: Urban sprawl : a comprehensive reference guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2006.
Originally published: Urban sprawl : a comprehensive reference guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-547) and index.
Introduction -- Defining and managing sprawl / David C. Soule -- Historical framework : cities and their regions, suburbanization, and federal policies / David C. Soule -- Legal framework : the laws of sprawl and the laws of smart growth / Jay Wickersham -- Planning framework : a planning framework for managing sprawl / Ralph Willmer -- Economic framework : the economics of sprawl / Zenia Kotval and John Mullin -- Social framework : sprawl, race, and concentrated poverty -- changing the "rules of the game" / David Rusk -- Social framework : planning for a civic society, investing in social infrastructure to develop social capital / Meredith Cooper -- Political framework : the politics of sprawl / David C. Soule -- Real estate markets and property law / David C. Soule -- Transportation systems : market choices and fair prices -- five years of Twin Cities research / Curtis Johnson -- Atlanta metropatterns : a regional agenda for community and stability / Myron Orfield -- Shared freedom : a dynamic standard for equity in the sprawl debate / John Moynihan -- The impact of sprawl on the environment and human health / Sarah Gardner -- The cost of sprawl / David C. Soule -- Measuring change : databases, build-out analysis, scenario planning, and models / David C. Soule -- Taking democracy to scale : tools for planning at the speed of change / Ron Thomas -- Sprawl and local government taxation regimes : cause and effect / Ari Bruening, James Hlawek, and David C. Soule -- Immigration : friend or foe / Alexander von Hoffman and David C. Soule -- Governing complexity : the emergence of regional compacts / Douglas Henton, John Melville, and John Parr -- The local arena : changing regulations and standards to address sprawl / Terry Szold -- Greenspace and natural resource preservation / Robertá Yaro -- Regional equity and smart growth : opportunities for advancing social and economic justice in America / Angela Glover Blackwell and Radhika K. Fox -- Conclusion.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780803260153 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0803260156 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns United States Growth.
Regional planning United States.
Urban sprawl United States.
Villes États-Unis Croissance.
Aménagement du territoire États-Unis.
Cities and towns Growth.
Regional planning.
United States.

Added entries:

Soule, David C.
Our sustainable future.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258080
Call No.: BIB 188676
Status: Available