Don't call it sprawl : metropolitan structure in the twenty-first century / William T. Bogart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogart, William T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan areas--United States.

Metropolitan areas.

Cities and towns--Growth--Economic aspects.

Cities and towns--Growth.

United States.

Cities and towns--Growth--Economic aspects--United States.

Cities and towns.

City and town life--United States.

City and town life.

Urban transportation--United States.

Urban transportation.

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Do not call it sprawl

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

1 The World of Today 1

Why My View Is Different 3

What Does a Typical Metropolitan Area Look Like? 7

Mental Models of Metropolitan Areas 9

New Metropolitan Structure: Atlanta and Los Angeles (and Cleveland and Pittsburgh!) 12

It's Not Sprawl or Edge Cities: It's Trading Places 15

Plan of the Book 16

2 Making Things Better: The Importance of Flexibility 20

Efficiency and Equity: How Economists Evaluate Outcomes 21

Policy Design in Action: A Regional Plan 24

Crusading Policy versus Persuading Policy 25

Entrepreneurship in Metropolitan Areas 32

The Present as a Weighted Average of the Past 34

Utopian Metropolitan Structure 36

3 Are We There Yet? 39

Evolving Metropolitan Structure 40

Theories of Metropolitan Structure 42

Specialization and Trade 47

Patterns of Trade 50

What Is Urban Sprawl? 55

Sprawl and the Urban Fringe 61

Urban Growth and Structural Change: The Neverending Story 62

4 Trading Places 64

Specialization in Production: Evidence from Employment Centers 65

Size Distribution of Employment Centers 74

Characterizing Commuting to Metropolitan Employment Centers 80

Municipalities as Small Countries 86

Structure and Specialization, Not Sprawl 87

5 Downtown: A Place to Work, a Place to Visit, a Place to Live 89

Downtown as a Trading Place 90

Central City Economic Development 94

Stadium Construction as a Downtown Development Tool 99

Living for the City 108

Declaring Victory: When Can a Local Government Stop Subsidizing Activity? 111

6 How Zoning Matters 118

Externalities 118

How Zoning Is Like a Tax 121

Zoning and Trade 124

Analyzing the Impact of Zoning 125

Toward a Dynamic Model 129

Does Zoning Have a Major Impact on Urban Structure? 133

Alternatives to Zoning 138

What Houston Suggests about Zoning 140

Eminent Domain and Development 141

7 Love the Density, Hate the Congestion 143

Commuting: How Bad Is It? 144

Controlling Congestion 149

Travel Forecasts and Reducing Congestion 154

Municipal Waste 156

8 Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Local Government 160

Intrametropolitan Competition for Businesses 161

Regionalism and Getting an Education 168

Effective Change: Targeting Subsidies to the Undeserving 172

Regional Service Provision 175

Heterogeneity through Homogeneity: Neighborhood Associations 176

Winners and Losers: The View from Ancient Rome 179

9 The World of Tomorrow 181

Never Capitulate, but Always Recapitulate 182

Encouraging Trade among Trading Places 182

Twenty-First-Century Metropolitan Structure: Good or Bad? 183

Twenty-First-Century Metropolitan Areas: A Chance to Reinvent the City? 188

The New Urban Hierarchy 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.

ISBN:

0521860911

052167803X

OCLC:

62804691

Publisher Number:

9780521860918

9780521678032

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