A Guidebook for Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning
A Guidebook for Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning

Author: National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0309099110

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Explores incorporating the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) data into the transportation planning processes at national, state, metropolitan, and local levels. The report examines ACS data and products and demonstrates their uses within a wide range of transportation planning applications.

Suburban Sprawl
Suburban Sprawl

Author: Wim Wiewel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317459199

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Suburban Sprawl combines historical, political, economic, geographic, and urban planning analysis to provide the most comprehensive overview of why and how urban sprawl occurs. It shows that all previous attempts to pin the blame on one or two causes - "highway building" or "consumer preferences" - totally miss the complex and interwoven character of public policy and private interests in creating today's urban form. The authors have included the detailed analyses of expenditures which show that federal housing subsidies have contributed significantly to sprawl in the post-war period, as well as a comprehensive overview of policies that can be used to reduce sprawl or reduce its negative consequences. This book will inform the growing policy community involved in regionalism and the general urban policy community. It can also be assigned in undergraduate and graduate level classes in urban sociology, geography, urban politics, and urban planning.