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Smarter Growth Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century
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Randall G. Holcombe, ed., Samuel R. Staley, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31595-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31595-4
304 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
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
About the Author: 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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