Marion Clawson

Suburban Land Conversion in the United States

An Economic and Governmental Process

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Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive study of land use on the suburban fringe analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States. It contains a detailed examination of the northwestern urban complex; some nationwide projections for the future; and a list of measures that, singularly or together, may change the nature and results of the suburban land conversion process. Originally published in 1971

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RFF Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9781617260773
• ISBN-10: 1617260770
• Artikelnr.: 32927206

Autorenporträt

Marion Clawson

Inhaltsangabe

1: Scope, Focus, and Design of the Book
I: Forces, Processes, Actors
2: Some Measures of Urbanization
3: Postwar Urbanization in the United States
4: The Nature of the Urban Impact on the Rural Countryside
5: The Decision-Making Process in Urban Expansion
6: The Chief Actors in Urban Expansion
7: The Suburban Land Market
8: Public Services for Suburban Areas
9: Externalities and Interdependencies in Urban Land Uses and Values
II: The Northeastern Urban Complex in the United States
10: An Overview of the Complex
11: Land Use in Three Study Areas of the Northeastern Urban Complex
12: Decision Making in Suburbanization of the Three Study Areas
13: A Glance at Other Metropolitan Areas in the Northeastern Urban Complex
14: The Emerging Regional Urban Complex
III: Possibilities for the Future
15: A Summary Appraisal of Suburban Land Conversion
16: Another Generation of the Present Suburbanization Process
17: Alternatives for Planned Modification of the Suburban Land Conversion Process