Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

by Bae,Chang-Hee Christine; Richar

• ISBN13: 9780754637899
• ISBN10: 0754637891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xiii
Foreword	xv
1. Introduction
Chang-Hee Christine Bae and Harry W. Richardson	1	(10)
PART I: THE UNITED KINGDOM
2. Sustainable Settlements and Jobs-Housing Balance
Michael Breheny	11	(26)
3. Reducing Sprawl and Delivering an Urban Renaissance in England: Are These Aims Possible Given Current Attitudes to Urban Living?
Katie Williams	37	(18)
4. Push-Pull Forces in the Spatial Organization of Greater London and South East England
Terence Bendixson	55	(10)
5. Knowledge, Decisions and Urban Form: Implications from the Socialist Calculation Debate
Mark Pennington	65	(18)
6. The Thirty-Year's Experiment with British Greenbelt Policy in Korea: A Convergent Path to Sustainable Development
Sang-Chuel Choe	83	(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	93	(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