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Smarter Growth Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century
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Randall G. Holcombe, Samuel R. Staley
Book Code: GM1595
ISBN: 0-313-31595-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31595-4
304 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History
Series Number: 224
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
LC Card Number: 00-061701
LCC Class: HD205
Dewey Class: 333
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