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Author : Mahendra Subba
Release : 1998
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Book Synopsis Evaluation of the Impact of Urban Containment Policies on Urban Form by : Mahendra Subba
Download or read book Evaluation of the Impact of Urban Containment Policies on Urban Form written by Mahendra Subba. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur C. Nelson
Release : 2016-02-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Social Impacts of Urban Containment by : Arthur C. Nelson
Download or read book The Social Impacts of Urban Containment written by Arthur C. Nelson. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limiting the growth of cities in an attempt to preserve open rural uses, such as habitat, agriculture and forestry, in urban regions. While there has been a substantial amount of research into these urban containment policies, most have focused on issues of land use, consumption, transportation impacts or economic development issues. This book examines the effects of urban containment policies on key social issues, such as housing, wealth building and creation, racial segregation and gentrification. It argues that, while the policies make important contributions to environmental sustainability, they also affect affordability for all the economic groups of citizens aside from the most wealthy. However, it also puts forward suggestions for revising such policies to counter these possible negative social impacts. As such, it will be valuable reading for scholars of environmental planning, social policy and regional development, as well as for policy makers.
Author : Myungje Woo
Release : 2007
Genre : Cities and towns
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Book Synopsis Impacts of Urban Containment Policies on Urban Growth and Structure by : Myungje Woo
Download or read book Impacts of Urban Containment Policies on Urban Growth and Structure written by Myungje Woo. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Numerous communities have adopted some form of urban containment policies (UCPs), such as greenbelt, urban growth boundaries (UGBs), and urban service areas (USAs), as methods to prevent urban sprawl and protect open space. Although there is controversy over the negative and positive impacts of UCPs, little is known on their impacts on population and employment growth, and on the overall urban spatial structure. The purpose of this research is to (1) understand the system of UCPs, (2) empirically analyze their impacts on population and employment growth, and built-up areas in combination with housing values, and (3) examine their impacts on the location of industrial activities as well as population. Two approaches are considered to empirically analyze the impacts of UCPs on urban growth and urban spatial structure. In the first approach, a simultaneous equation model is used with, as endogenous variables, the changes in total population, total employment and sectoral employment, housing values, and land area at the municipal/city level. In the second approach, population and employment density gradients, estimated with both monocentric and polycentric models at the metropolitan level, are used to examine the impacts of different UCPs on urban spatial structure. The research finds that both the stringent containment policies (SCPs), including greenbelts and UGBs, and the less stringent containment policies (LSCP), including USAs, have significant impacts on changes in population, employment, housing values, and land areas. When both direct and indirect effects are taken into account, the SCPs have a positive effect on changes in population, employment, housing values, and land area twice larger than the LSCPs, suggesting that SCPs more successfully accommodate new growth within the growth boundaries, and that housing values increase with the tightness of UCPs. In terms of the urban spatial structure, statewide SCPs encourage metropolitan areas to move to a polycentric development pattern, locally-enforced SCPs support a monocentric pattern, and USAs produce sprawled development patterns.
Author : Arthur C. Nelson
Release : 2016-02-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Social Impacts of Urban Containment by : Arthur C. Nelson
Download or read book The Social Impacts of Urban Containment written by Arthur C. Nelson. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limiting the growth of cities in an attempt to preserve open rural uses, such as habitat, agriculture and forestry, in urban regions. While there has been a substantial amount of research into these urban containment policies, most have focused on issues of land use, consumption, transportation impacts or economic development issues. This book examines the effects of urban containment policies on key social issues, such as housing, wealth building and creation, racial segregation and gentrification. It argues that, while the policies make important contributions to environmental sustainability, they also affect affordability for all the economic groups of citizens aside from the most wealthy. However, it also puts forward suggestions for revising such policies to counter these possible negative social impacts. As such, it will be valuable reading for scholars of environmental planning, social policy and regional development, as well as for policy makers.
Author : Miriam Hortas-Rico
Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Sprawl, Blight and the Role of Urban Containment Policies by : Miriam Hortas-Rico
Download or read book Sprawl, Blight and the Role of Urban Containment Policies written by Miriam Hortas-Rico. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US post-war suburbanization has reshaped the spatial pattern of growth in many metropolitan areas, with population and employment shift toward the suburbs resulting in the urban decay of central cities. This being the case, the adoption of adequate anti-sprawl policies should lead to a reduction in city blight. Availability of detailed blight measures at the city level enables us to undertake a novel empirical analysis to test this hypothesis. The empirical specification presented here identifies the specific impact of more stringent anti-sprawl policies adopted at the metro-level, proxied by the adoption of urban containment policies, on city blight. Results indicate that the adoption of such policies have effectively contributed to the reduction of downtown deterioration.
