Up against the sprawl : public policy and the making of Southern California / Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Peter Dreier, editors ; foreword by Michael Dear.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolch, Jennifer R.

Pastor, Manuel, 1956-

Dreier, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--California, Southern--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Urban policy--California, Southern.

Urban policy.

Land use, Urban--California, Southern.

Land use, Urban.

Growth.

Southern California.

Physical Description:

xi, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]

Summary:

America's first truly twenty-first-century metropolis, Los Angeles is often depicted as diverse, fragmented, polarized, and ungovernable, a city without a unifying geographic center or civic culture. The sprawling evolution of the city and its infamous problems are usually attributed to the triumph of a free market over urban planning. However, market choices and lack of planning did not set the terrain of Southern California; Los Angeles has been profoundly shaped by a wide range of local, state, and federal public policies and programs. Up against the Sprawl details how governmental policies and public agencies have dictated many aspects of the region's growth, and argues that since public policy set the landscape, it can help forge the future. The authors explore countermovements to use policies for greater social, economic, and environmental justice, and highlight practical lessons for policy makers and activists in Los Angeles and beyond.

Contents:

W(h)ither sprawl? Have regional water policies subsidized suburban development? / Steven P. Erie, Gregory Freeman, and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Environmental racism and urban development / Laura Pulido

Urban sprawl, racial separation, and federal housing policy / Carolyn B. Aldana and Gary A. Dymski

From the barrio to the 'burbs? Immigration and the dynamics of suburbanization / Enrico A. Marcelli

Where is the "region" in regional transportation planning? / Genevieve Giuliano

Metropolitan fiscal structure : coping with growth and fiscal constraint / Juliet Musso

Federal expenditures, intrametropolitan poverty, and fiscal disparities between cities / Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Juliet Musso, and Jennifer Wolch

The preservation of nature at the urban fringe / Stephanie Pincetl

Can growth control escape fiscal and economic pressures? City policy before and after the 1990s recession / Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, William Fulton, and Juliet Musso

Smart growth or smart growth machine? The smart growth movement and its implications / Elizabeth Gearin

Living on the edge : growth policy choices for Ventura County / Christine M. Ryan, John P. Wilson, and William Fulton

The experimental metropolis : political impediments and opportunities for innovation / Mara A. Marks, Elizabeth Gearin, and Carol S. Armstrong.

Notes:

"Published in Association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816642974

0816642982

OCLC:

54822835