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Title Growth management in Florida : planning for paradise / edited by Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly and Harrison T. Higgins
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Urban planning and environment
Urban planning and environment.
Contents Introduction / Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, and Harrison T. Higgins -- The foundations of growth management in Florida -- A historical perspective for evaluating Florida's evolving growth management process / Thomas G. Pelham -- Consistency, concurrency and compact development: three faces of growth management implementation in Florida / Efraim Ben-Zadok -- The fiscal theory and reality of growth management in Florida / James C. Nicholas and Timothy S. Chapin -- Attitudes towards growth management in Florida: comparing resident support in 1985 and 2001 / Timothy S. Chapin and Charles E. Connerly -- Evaluating growth management's outcomes -- Growth and change Florida style: 1970 to 2000 / Thomas W. Sanchez and Robert H. Mandle -- Growth management and the spatial outcome of regional development in Florida, 1982-1997 / John I. Carruthers, Marlon G. Boarnet and Ralph B. McLaughlin -- Growth management or growth unabated? : economic development in Florida since 1990 / Timothy S. Chapin -- Compact urban form or business as usual? : an examination of urban form in Orange County, Florida / Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Yan Song -- The spillover effects of growth management: constraints on new housing construction / Yan Song -- Are we any safer? : an evaluation of Florida's hurricane hazard mitigation planning mandates / Robert E. Deyle, Timothy S. Chapin, and Earl J. Baker -- Urban containment and neighborhood quality in Florida / Arthur C. Nelson, Casey J. Dawkins, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Karen A. Danielsen -- Innovations and limitations of the Florida growth management experiment -- Transportation concurrency: an idea before its time? / Ruth L. Steiner -- Why do Florida counties adopt urban growth boundaries? / Randall G. Holcombe -- Paying for the "priceless"? : Florida forever, managing growth, and public land acquisition / Harrison T. Higgins and Neil B. Paradise -- Affordable housing in Florida: why haven't Florida's growth management laws met the challenge of adequately housing all its citizens? / Charles E. Connerly -- Documenting the rise of impact fees in Florida / Gregory S. Burge and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt -- Conclusion -- The 1985 Florida GMA: satan or savior? / Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, Harrison T. Higgins -- Index
Summary The 1985 Growth Management Act (GMA) fundamentally changed planning in Florida and, some might argue, the United States as a whole. The central purpose of this book is to document and evaluate the impacts of this innovative state-level growth management approach
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Urbanization -- Florida
Cities and towns -- Florida -- Growth
Regional planning -- Florida
City planning -- Florida
Urban policy -- Florida
Environmental policy -- Florida
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Economic policy
Environmental policy
Regional planning
Urban policy
Urbanization
Stadsplanning.
SUBJECT Florida -- Economic policy
Subject Florida
Florida.
Form Electronic book
Author Connerly, Charles E., 1946-
Chapin, Timothy Stewart.
Higgins, Harrison T.
ISBN 9780754684824
0754684822