Urban sprawl : a reference handbook / Donald C. Williams

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-240) and index

-- Background to the Current Crisis: Land Resources and Public Policy in America -- Historic Evolution of Urban Land Use in America -- The Contemporary Phenomenon of Urban Sprawl: Costs and Consequences -- Making Better Use of the Land: The Debate over Controlling Urban Sprawl -- Containing Sprawl through Local Zoning -- Statewide Prescriptions for Sprawl -- Saving Rural Lands from Urban Sprawl -- Fighting Sprawl by Reclaiming Central Cities -- Improving Life in the Suburbs -- Recent Trends in the Debate over Sprawl -- The Smart Growth Movement -- The Property Rights Challenge -- New Federal Initiatives -- The Facts: What Trends Are Shaping Sprawl? -- Public Opinion Polls on Urban Sprawl -- "Straight Talk from Americans: 2000" National Survey -- 1999 Consumer Survey on Growth Issues -- Quotations: Debating Urban Sprawl -- What Is the Best Way to Deal with Urban Sprawl? -- Charter of the Metropolitan Government of Portland, Oregon, 1993 -- Statewide Planning Program, State of Oregon, 1973 -- Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiatives, State of Maryland, 1997 -- Vice President Al Gore's Livable Communities Speech, Delivered at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 2 September 1998 -- Clinton-Gore Livability Agenda: Building Livable Communities for the Twenty-First Century -- Testimony for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Hearing on Open Space, by Gary Garczynski, President, National Association of Home Builders, 17 March 1999 -- National Advocacy Organizations -- State and Regional Advocacy Organizations -- Federal Government Agencies -- State Agencies