Suburb : : Planning Politics and the Public Interest / / Royce Hanson.

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Learning from a Century of Planning Politics
  • 1. Planning Politics
  • 2. On Wedges and Corridors
  • 3. Retrofitting Suburbia
  • 4. The Death and Life of Silver Spring
  • 5. The End of Suburbia?
  • 6. Trials in Corridor City Planning
  • 7. Errors in Corridor City Planning
  • 8. The Agricultural Reserve
  • 9. Growth Pains and Policy
  • 10. The Public Interest
  • Conclusion: The Importance of Planning and Politics
  • Analytical Table of Contents
  • Links to Planning Documents
  • Notes
  • Index