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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818842803321

Autore

Levine Jonathan (Jonathan C.)

Titolo

Zoned out : regulation, markets, and choices in transportation and metropolitan land-use  / / Jonathan Levine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Resources for the Future, c2005

ISBN

1-280-68701-0

9786613663955

1-136-52669-2

1-936331-21-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

333.73/17/0973

Soggetti

Zoning - United States

Land use - United States

Real estate development - United States - Planning

Transportation - United States - Planning

Cities and towns - United States - Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An RFF Press book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ZONED OUTRegulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land-Use; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE Market Failures and Planning Failures; CHAPTER TWO Travel Behavior Research and the "Market"; CHAPTER THREE Marketlike Interpretations of Land-Use Controls; CHAPTER FOUR The Harms of Regulatory Exclusion; CHAPTER FIVE Is Zoning State Regulation or a Local Property Right?; CHAPTER SIX The Limited Power of Smart-Growth Regulation; CHAPTER SEVEN Developers, Planners, and Neighborhood Supply; CHAPTER EIGHT The Demand for Transportation and Land-Use Innovation

CHAPTER NINE A New Foundation for Policy ReformNotes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development. Underlying this has been the presumption that, for these options to be given serious consideration



as part of policy reform, science has to prove that they will reduce auto use and increase transit, walking, and other physical activity. Zoned Out forcefully argues that the debate about transportation and land-use planning in the United States has been distorted by a myth?the myth that urban sprawl is the result of a free market. A