Policies of urban containment are widely used in land-use planning and as a means of
reducing urban sprawl and of preserving farmland. This paper reviews the current state of …

This article examines how land use planning and regulation may affect regional economic
prosperity by reviewing relevant literature. It identifies a set of complex causal links between …

This article argues that urban spatial expansion results mainly from three powerful forces: a
growing population, rising incomes, and falling commuting costs. Urban growth occurring …

The literature shows single-use, low-density land development and disconnected street
networks to be positively associated with auto dependence and negatively associated with …

The public sector in the United States has responded to growing concern about the social
and environmental costs of sprawling development patterns by creating a wide range of …

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and
scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and …

One of the principle criticisms of urban sprawl is that it undermines the cost-effective
provision of public services. In this paper the authors examine whether or not this is true …

Current patterns of land use and development are at once socially, economically, and
environmentally destructive. Sprawling low-density development literally devours natural …

Planning in the USA is a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of
planning. Outlining land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies, this fully …

Providing a robust conceptual framework, urban regime theory has-despite its cited
shortcomings-gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics, in addition to its …