Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

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ISBN: 9780754637899 | 0754637891
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/28/2004

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Urban sprawl has become one of the key planning issues. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book compares how urban sprawl has developed in Western Europe and the USA, as well as the policies that have been developed and implemented to control it.

List of Contributors

vii

List of Tables

List of Figures

xiii

Foreword

1. Introduction

Chang-Hee Christine Bae and Harry W. Richardson

(10)

PART I: THE UNITED KINGDOM

2. Sustainable Settlements and Jobs-Housing Balance

Michael Breheny

(26)

3. Reducing Sprawl and Delivering an Urban Renaissance in England: Are These Aims Possible Given Current Attitudes to Urban Living?

Katie Williams

(18)

4. Push-Pull Forces in the Spatial Organization of Greater London and South East England

Terence Bendixson

(10)

5. Knowledge, Decisions and Urban Form: Implications from the Socialist Calculation Debate

Mark Pennington

(18)

6. The Thirty-Year's Experiment with British Greenbelt Policy in Korea: A Convergent Path to Sustainable Development

Sang-Chuel Choe

(10)

PART II: FRANCE AND CONTINENTAL WESTERN EUROPE

7. Urban Sprawl in Rennes and 77 Urban Areas in France, 1982-1999

Remy Prud 'homme and Bernard-Henri Nicot

(22)

8. Urban Sprawl in France 1990-1999

Alain Sallez and Julien Burgi

115

(22)

9. Urban Sprawl: Is There a French Case?

Denise Pumain

137

(22)

10. Concentration and Dispersal of Employment in French Cities

Jean-Marie Huriot

159

(26)

11. Location Patterns of Producer Services: Between Centralization and Urban Sprawl; French and Swiss Case studies

Antoine Badly

185

(10)

12. Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl

Jefferey Sellers

195

(22)

PART III: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

13. US Population and Employment Trends and Sprawl Issues

Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon

217

(20)

14. Urban Containment American Style: A Preliminary Assessment

Arthur C. Nelson

237

(18)

15. Local Innovations in Controlling Sprawl: Experiences with Several Approaches in the Seattle Urban Region

Donald Miller

255

(22)

16. Immigration and Densities: A Contribution to the Compact Cities and Sprawl Debates

Chang-Hee Christine Bae

277

(16)

17. Transit and Density: Atlanta, the United States and Western Europe

Alain Bertaud and Harry W. Richardson

293

(18)

18. Traffic and Sprawl: Evidence from US Commuting, 1985 to 1997

Randall Crane and Daniel G. Chatman

311

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Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

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