This book is a study of design initiatives and policies in five US West Coast cities--Seattle
(including Bellevue), Portland, San Francisco, Irvine and San Diego--all of which have had …

Academics, public officials, and citizens increasingly advocate more and better local
planning as a central component of regional growth management. They assume that local …

How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This
challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for …

The public sector in the United States has responded to growing concern about the social
and environmental costs of sprawling development patterns by creating a wide range of …

Planning in the USA is a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of
planning. Outlining land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies, this fully …

Providing a robust conceptual framework, urban regime theory has-despite its cited
shortcomings-gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics, in addition to its …

Problem: Literature advocating compact development and mixed uses frequently claims that
this form of development supports a higher quality of life, yet the empirical basis for this claim …

Metropolitan areas throughout the United States increasingly experience sprawl
development. States such as Oregon and Maryland have enacted land use legislation that …

Portland, Oregon, is celebrated in the planning literature as one of the nation's most livable
cities, yet there is very little scholarship on its small Black community. Using census data …

Policies designed to deliberately control the spread of urban areas are increasing in
popularity throughout the United States. Several states, and many local governments in the …