Problem, research strategy, and findings In light of recent debate over upzonings and
leveraging markets as means of expanding housing opportunity, I review the evolution of …

A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an
alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to …

Because of the inadequacies of mainstream formulations, marxian urban analysis has
emerged to explain the important urban events since World War II. Similarly, but within a …

Although public health and urban planning emerged with the common goal of preventing
urban outbreaks of infectious disease, there is little overlap between the fields today. The …

This paper presents an interdisciplinary review—from the perspectives of geography,
economics, and urban planning—of the literature on central place theory (CPT) and its …

This article reports on empirical tests of two theories for improving compliance with state
environmental regulations. One theory argues for centralization of enforcement …

How can governments (and communities) reduce susceptibility to losses in natural
disasters? Can formally adopted plans be used as a tool in the policy-making process …

The literature in the US has extensively examined the policies of state and sub-state areas
that are well known for their anti-sprawl measures. This has resulted in little knowledge of …

The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body
of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and …

This research investigates how states influence development management, in a study of 176
communities in five states. First, state planning mandates improve the quality of local plans …