The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study.
The authors analyze the extent of sprawl, define an alternative, more compact form of growth, project the magnitude and location of future growth, and compare what the total costs of those two forms of...
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 19...
The Fiscal Impact Handbook is a unique manual detailing practical methods for determining the full range of revenues and costs associated with residential and nonresidential growth. Planners, economists, businessmen, administrators, financial officers, assessors, community groups, private organizations, and those interested in the fiscal consequences of growth and non-growth will find The Fiscal Impact Handbook indispensable. Fiscal impact methods are presented in a clear, step-by-step format and are capable of being carried out by the practicing planner with minimal procedural problems. The...
The Fiscal Impact Handbook is a unique manual detailing practical methods for determining the full range of revenues and costs associated with residen...
Theory and practice in city planning have not been known to be compatible. The stress on the planner, dealing with the personalities at work in a board meeting, the realities of coping with fund raising, of political realities and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the trade. The issues of poverty groups, whether rural or urban, the provision of services, and the packaging of them are seemingly insuperable. The sheer frustration in the inability to deliver, which so many planners feel, makes for a vast impatience and a questioning of the relevance of theory. The editors argue...
Theory and practice in city planning have not been known to be compatible. The stress on the planner, dealing with the personalities at work in a boar...
