| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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Forward / David Rusk -- Introduction: an agenda for a new century / Jonathan Barnett -- pt. 1. New metropolitanism. Regional imperatives of global competition / Theodore Hershberg -- Planning metropolitan regions / Gary Hack -- pt. 2. Managing growth and conserving the environment. Social equity and metropolitan growth / John C. Keene -- Regional design: local codes as cause and cure of sprawl / Jonathan Barnett -- Next steps in controlling pollution / Roger Raufer -- Highway planning and land use: theory and practice / Stephen H. Putman -- pt. 3. Education, safety, and welfare. Improving primary and secondary education / Susan H. Fuhrman -- Improving public safety in cities / Thomas M. Seamon -- Welfare reform, reproductive reform, or work reform? / Roberta Rehner Iversen -- pt. 4. Restoring older urban areas. Housing and urban communities / Eugenie L. Birch -- Restoring natural resources and rebuilding urban communities / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Downtowns: competitive for a new century / Paul R. Levy -- Afterword / Judith Rodin |
| Summary |
Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways in which public policies have helped create-and can help solve-many of the problems facing our communities. Each chapter identifies issues, provides background, and offers specific policy suggestions for federal, state, and local initiatives. Topics examined include: (1) The relation of existing growth management policies to social equity, as well as how regional growth management measures can make new development more sustainable; (2) How an obscure technical procedure in highway design becomes a de facto regional plan; (3) Ways in which local governments can promote environmental preservation and better-designed communities by rewriting local zoning and subdivision ordinances; (4) Why alleviating housing shortages and slum conditions has resulted in a lack of affordable housing, and how that problem can be solved; and (5) How business improvement districts can make downtowns cleaner, safer, and more welcoming to workers and visitors. In addition, the book features chapters on public safety, education, and welfare reform that include proposals that will help make regional growth management easier as inner-city crime is reduced, schools are improved, and concentrations of extreme poverty are eliminated.00000 ø0 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Regional planning -- United States
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Public welfare -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects
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Public welfare
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Regional planning
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barnett, Jonathan
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| ISBN |
1423707834 |
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9781423707837 |
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9781597266161 |
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1597266167 |
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1559638060 |
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9781559638067 |
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