Building Rules
How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 1999
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-8133-6846-7 (ISBN)
Description
Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about quality of life. Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local growth machines. Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-6846-7 (9780813368467)
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Building Rules
How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
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How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
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How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
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How Local Controls Shape Community Environments And Economies
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Content
List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. The Relevance of Regulation; Environmentalism as Local Urge; The Critique: Stranglers of the Economy; Economy Versus the Environment: Some Past Findings; Local Regulation and Urban Theory; Assessing Regulation; Plan of the Book; 2. Sites; Learning from Southern California; Selecting Study Sites; Identifying Growth Controls; Santa Barbara South Coast; Santa Monica; The Riverside Area; Growth Controls in Place: A Summary; 3. Has Growth Been Stopped? Not Much; First Findings: Rates of Growth; Testing the Power of Growth Restrictions; An Alternative Testing Strategy; 4. Power to Build: How Cities Grow Under Growth Control; Growth Through Symbolic Growth Control; Growth Through Episodic Growth Control; Growth Through Countervailing Policies; Growth Through Developer Initiatives; The Context of Control: Comparative Power Advantages; The Ways of Growth; 5. Project Peddling: What Gets Approved and How; Peddling Around with Our Projects; What Gets Approved and How; Project Environmental Reviews; Local Knowledge Base for Planning Decisions; Resisting Growth: A Matter of Degree; 6. Indirect Effects: How Building Rules Make Growth Different; Traffic; Natural Limits; Affordable Housing; Social Equity; Urban Spatial Form; Project Aesthetics; Exactions on the Ground: A Tally Between Places; 7. Building the Rules; Enhancing the Quality of Public Decisions; Regulation as Economic Boon; Grounding Sustainability; Who Wins What?; Making Markets Smarter; Valuing Land and Community; Balancing Commercial and Public Interests; Taking Stock of Local Controls; Appendix A : Measuring Growth Control Impacts; Appendix B: Chronologies of Growth Control; Appendix C: Commercial Valuation Data, 1970-1990; Appendix D: Residential Building Rates; Appendix E: Case Study Details; Appendix F: Interview Schedule; Reference List