By Pietro S. Nivola
ISBN-10: 0585032009
ISBN-13: 9780585032009
ISBN-10: 0815760817
ISBN-13: 9780815760818
For many years, matters were raised in regards to the outcomes of relentless suburban growth within the usa. yet to date, executive courses to regulate city sprawl have had little impact in slowing it down, less preventing it. during this ebook, Pietro S. Nivola increases vital questions on the continuing suburbanization of the United States: Is suburban development simply the results of industry forces, or have govt guidelines helped set off larger sprawl? How a lot of the govt intervention has been bad, and what has been helpful? And, if suburban progress is to be managed, what alterations in public regulations will be not just potent, yet useful? Nivola addresses those questions via evaluating sprawling U.S. metropolitan components to compact improvement styles in Europe. He contrasts the consequences of conventional city courses, in addition to "accidental city regulations" that experience a profound if in most cases unrecognized impression on towns, together with nationwide tax structures, strength conservation efforts, agricultural helps, and safeguard from overseas trade. Nivola additionally takes a difficult examine the conventional recommendations of U.S. city coverage schedule regarding core-area reconstruction initiatives, mass transit investments, "smart" development controls, and metropolitan organizational rearrangements, and information the explanations why they typically do not paintings. He concludes by way of recommending reforms for key U.S. policies--from taxes to transportation to federal regulations--based at the successes and screw ups of the eu event. Brookings Metropolitan sequence
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But they do not explain all of it. 1 Actions of government, sometimes intentionally, often not, have supplied additional stimulus for the unbounded extension of suburbia. 2 Each of these is a place where population has either grown modestly or not at all, yet the consumption of land has continued to be voracious. From 1970 to 1990, the New York region's population grew by 8 percent, while the region's urbanized land increased by 65 percent. The Chicago area's population rose by only 4 percent during these twenty years, but that region's built-up land increased 46 percent.
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No European country attained anything like that level of automobile ownership until well after the second world war. 29 America's motorized multitudes were able to commute between suburban residences and workplaces many decades before this type of human ecology was conceivable in almost any other advanced nation. While the automobile has come to be considered the prime mover of America's "edge cities," the role of other, more recent technical advances should not be underestimated. It is hard to imagine how Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, and Miami could have grown as much as they did without the existence of air conditioning.