Costs of Sprawl
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Costs of Sprawl

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Costs of Sprawl

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Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half ago, Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure sprawl and its quality-of-life impacts. The resulting measures are widely used in urban research and public health.

Costs of Sprawl provides a panoramic guide to urban form in America, measures sprawl for metropolitan areas, urbanized areas, and counties, and studies the relationship between sprawl and quality-of-life outcomes. From this preliminary investigation, it looks like the costs of sprawl are varied and substantial, and the alternative of compact development is far superior.

An essential read for researchers, planners, urban designers, policy makers, and smart growth advocates in the U.S. and abroad, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of one of the most critical issues in planning today.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781317240020
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Updated County Sprawl Index
  10. 3 Refined County Sprawl Measures
  11. 4 Validation of County Sprawl Indices
  12. 5 Traffic Safety
  13. 6 Public Health
  14. 7 Derivation and Validation of Metropolitan Sprawl Indices
  15. 8 Relationship of Sprawl to Topical Outcomes
  16. 9 Urbanized Areas: A Longitudinal Analysis
  17. 10 Case Examples for Planners
  18. Index