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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464016603321

Titolo

Suburban sprawl : private decisions and public policy / / Wim Wiewel and Joseph J. Persky, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-45919-9

1-315-70055-7

0-7656-0967-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Cities and Contemporary Society

Altri autori (Persone)

PerskyJoseph

WiewelWim

Disciplina

307.76/09773/11

Soggetti

Suburbs - Illinois - Chicago Metropolitan Area

Population density - Illinois - Chicago Metropolitan Area

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables, Figures, and Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Public Works and Land Use: The Importance of Public Infrastructure in Chicago's Metropolitan Development, 1830-1970""; ""2. Urban Land Cover Change in Northeastern Illinois: A Landsat View from 1972 to 1997""; ""3. Property Taxes, Schools, and Sprawl""; ""4. Land Use Planning Tools in Illinois: Preventing or Promoting Sprawl?""; ""5. Transportation in the Chicago Metropolitan Region Since 1970""

""6. Commercial Motor Carrier Operations in the Northeast Illinois Region: Impacts on Land Use Trends Since 1970""""7. The Role of Regional Planning Agencies in Suburban Deconcentration""; ""8. Housing Policy and Urban Sprawl in the Chicago Metropolitan Region""; ""9. Employment Subcenters and Subsequent Real Estate Development in Suburban Chicago""; ""10. High Technology Employment Concentration and Urban Sprawl in the Chicago Metropolitan Area""; ""11. The Impact of Federal and State Expenditures on Residential Land



Absorption: A Quantitative Case Study�Chicago""

""12. New Federal and State Policies for Metropolitan Equity""""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Suburban Sprawl combines historical, political, economic, geographic, and urban planning analysis to provide the most comprehensive overview of why and how urban sprawl occurs. It shows that all previous attempts to pin the blame on one or two causes - ""highway building"" or ""consumer preferences"" - totally miss the complex and interwoven character of public policy and private interests in creating today's urban form. The authors have included the detailed analyses of expenditures which show that federal housing subsidies have contributed significantly to sprawl in the post-war period, as w