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A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of suburban sprawl development and smart growth alternatives within the contexts of culture, ecology, and politics. It offers a mix of theoretical inquiry, historical analysis, policy critique, and case studies, written by academics and practitioners from around the world. In addition, each chapter is coupled with featured interviews with leading activists and policymakers working on sprawl issues.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part 1: Culture and Society: Contested Visions and Values
Chapter 3 Sprawl and Its Discontents: The Rural Dimension
Part 4 A Conversation with Bill Carpenter
Chapter 5 Waiting at the Gate: The New, Postmodern Promised Lands
Part 6 A Conversation with Mike Watkins
Chapter 7 Urban Impostures: How Two Neighborhoods Reframed Suburban Sprawl as a New Urbanist Paradise without Changing a Thing
Part 8 A Conversation with Don Chen and Elizabeth Humphrey
Chapter 9 Lawns as Artifacts: The Evolution of Social and Environmental Implications of Suburban Residential Land Use
Part 10 A Conversation with Parris Glendening
Part 11 Part II: Contesting Theories of Sprawl: Race, Class and Culture
Chapter 12 New Urbanism: Visionary Landscapesin the Twenty-First Century
Part 13 A Conversation with Alex Morton
Chapter 14 A Racial Critique of Public Housing Redevelopment Strategies
Part 15 A Conversation with Mel Martinez
Chapter 16 Race and Suburban Sprawl: Regionalism and Structural Racism
Part 17 A Conversation with Geoffrey Anderson
Chapter 18 The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back: Preservation of an Urban Mountain Landscape
Part 19 A Conversation with Richard Moe
Part 20 Part III: Development, Equity, and Policy Options: Theory and Cases
Chapter 21 Smarth Growth and the Law
Part 22 A Conversation with Earl Blumenauer
Chapter 23 Stemming Sprawl: The Fiscal Approach
Part 24 A Conversation with Greg LeRoy
Chapter 25 Surburan Sprawl in Southeastern Wisconsin: Planning, Politics, and the Lack of Affordable Housing
Part 26 A Conversation with Ted Mondale
Chapter 27 From Sprawl to Smart Growth: The Case of Atlanta
Chapter 28 Index

Product details

Published 28 Jul 2003
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 344
ISBN 9781461715337
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Matthew J. Lindstrom

Anthology Editor

Hugh Bartling

Contributor

H William Batt

Contributor

Michele Byers

Contributor

Milton Curry

Contributor

Ronald Hayduk

Contributor

Mark Lapping

Contributor

Robert Messia

Contributor

Josh Protas

Contributor

Amanda Rees

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Lydia Savage

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Bethany Stich

Contributor

Ulf Zimmerman

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