Urban sprawl in Western Europe and the United States / edited by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Harry W., 1938-

Bae, Chang-Hee Christine.

Series:

Urban planning and environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Europe, Western--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--United States--Growth.

Environmental conditions.

Population.

Land subdivision.

Urban policy.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

Growth.

United States.

City planning--Environmental aspects--Europe, Western.

City planning.

City planning--Environmental aspects--United States.

Urban policy--Europe, Western.

Urban policy--United States.

Land subdivision--Europe, Western.

Land subdivision--United States.

Europe, Western--Population.

Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Environmental conditions.

United States--Population.

United States--Environmental conditions.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part I The United Kingdom

2. Sustainable Settlements and Jobs-Housing Balance / Michael Breheny 11

3. Reducing Sprawl and Delivering an Urban Renaissance in England: Are These Aims Possible Given Current Attitudes to Urban Living? / Katie Williams 37

4. Push-Pull Forces in the Spatial Organization of Greater London and South East England / Terence Bendixson 55

5. Knowledge, Decisions and Urban Form: Implications from the Socialist Calculation Debate / Mark Pennington 65

6. The Thirty-Year's Experiment with British Greenbelt Policy in Korea: A Convergent Path to Sustainable Development / Sang-Chuel Choe 83

Part II France and Continental Western Europe

7. Urban Sprawl in Rennes and 77 Urban Areas in France, 1982-1999 / Remy Prud'homme, Bernard-Henri Nicot 93

8. Urban Sprawl in France 1990-1999 / Alain Sallez, Julien Burgi 115

9. Urban Sprawl: Is There a French Case? / Denise Pumain 137

10. Concentration and Dispersal of Employment in French Cities / Jean-Marie Huriot 159

11. Location Patterns of Producer Services: Between Centralization and Urban Sprawl; French and Swiss Case studies / Antoine Bailly 185

12. Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl / Jefferey Sellers 195

Part III The United States of America

13. US Population and Employment Trends and Sprawl Issues / Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon 217

14. Urban Containment American Style: A Preliminary Assessment / Arthur C. Nelson 237

15. Local Innovations in Controlling Sprawl: Experiences with Several Approaches in the Seattle Urban Region / Donald Miller 255

16. Immigration and Densities: A Contribution to the Compact Cities and Sprawl Debates / Chang-Hee Christine Bae 277

17. Transit and Density: Atlanta, the United States and Western Europe / Alain Bertaud, Harry W. Richardson 293

18. Traffic and Sprawl: Evidence from US Commuting, 1985 to 1997 / Randall Crane, Daniel G. Chatman 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754637891

OCLC:

53954239