1st Edition
Building Rules How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
216 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion, and more intangible worries about "quality of life." Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local "growth... Read more
The Relevance of Regulation -- Sites -- Has Growth Been Stopped? Not Much -- Power to Build: How Cities Grow Under Growth Control -- Project Peddling: What Gets Approved and How -- Indirect Effects: How Building Rules Make Growth Different -- Building the Rules -- Measuring Growth Control Impacts -- Chronologies of Growth Control -- Case Study Details -- Interview Schedule
Biography
Warner, Kee | Molotch, Harvey
