Overview

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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Author:   Randall G. Holcombe ,  Samuel R. Staley
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 224
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9780313315954

ISBN 10:   0313315957
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 August 2001
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface Land-use Planning and Markets; An Overview of the Issues by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley An Overview of U.S. Urbanization and Land Use Trends by Samuel R. Staley The Geography of Transportation and Land Use by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson Congestion and Traffic Management by Robert W. Poole, Jr. Air Quality, Density, and Environmental Degradation by Kenneth Green National Land Use Planning through Environmental Policy by Jefferson G. Edgens Regionalism and the Growth-Management Movement by Gerard C.S. Mildner Growth Management in Action: The Case of Florida by Randall G. Holcombe Urban Density and Sprawl:An Historic Perspective by Robert Bruegmann Property Rights in a Complex World by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Infrastructure Planning in Market-Oriented Framework by Wendell Cox Fixing the Dysfunctional Central City by Steven Hayward Policy Implications by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley References Index

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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.

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