Situations and Strategies in American Land-use Planning

by Thomas K. Rudel

• ISBN13: 9780521108874
• ISBN10: 052110887X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Numerous analyses have identified local land-use controls as the source of our continuing problems with residential segregation and environmental deterioration. Although recent efforts to resolve these problems have focused on policy-making in local government, the existing literature on land-use control provides little guidance for these efforts. In this context Situations and Strategies in American Land-use Planning meets a need. From case studies of regulatory processes in rural, rural-urban fringe, suburban and urban communities in Connecticut it develops an empirically grounded theory of land-use planning which has clear implications for reforming the local planning process. Thomas Rudel's book will be invaluable to all those involved in planning as well as being of interest to environmental and rural sociologists, geographers and political scientists concerned with local government.

Table of Contents

Introduction: local governments and land-use planning

Situations and strategies in local land-use control

Suburban development land-use planning in western Connecticut

A rural community

A rural-urban fringe community

Urban communities

Assessments and applications

Appendices

Notes

References

Index

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