This session contains the following papers: San Diego's growth management ordinance (Sorenson, DK); The evolution of adequate public facilities ordinances and their effectiveness as growth management tools in Maryland (Baumgaertner, WE and Guckert, JW); Results of two successful Maryland traffic mitigation programs (Papazian, EY); Coordinating Portland's urban growth plan and the western bypass study (Brannan, RC, Seltzer, E and Wert, MA); Access management: Relationship between developers, local government and state government (Falconi, XR).
Introduces growth management techniques rather than prescribes any single strategy or set of techniques for community growth and provides illustrative examples of how specific communities have successfully used these techniques.
In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligent planning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice (and where and why). This clearly written book details how American communities have grappled with the challenges of planning for growth and the ways in which they are adapting new ideas about urban design, green building, and conservation. It describes the policies and programs they have implemented, and includes examples from towns and cities throughout the U.S. Growth management is essential today, as communities seek to control the location, impact, character, and timing of development in order to balance environmental and economic needs and concerns. The author, who is one of the nation’s leading authorities on managing community growth, provides examples from dozens of communities across the country, as well as state and regional approaches. Brief profiles present overviews of specific problems addressed, techniques utilized, results achieved, and contact information for further research. Informative sidebars offer additional perspectives from experts in growth management, including Robert Lang, Arthur C. Nelson, Erik Meyers, and others. In particular, he considers issues of population growth, eminent domain, and the importance of design, especially green design. He also reports on the latest ideas in sustainable development, smart growth, neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and green infrastructure planning. Like its predecessor, the second edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities is essential reading for anyone who is interested in how communities can grow intelligently.
This work represents the first broad evaluation of the implications and impacts of community efforts to manage or limit rapid growth. It describes the major types of growth management programs, placing them for the first time in four categories. It also includes an evaluation of such related techniques as targeted capital investments, annexation policy, and public land acquisition. Also examined are the various costs and benefits---some obvious and some not---of growth management programs: development requirements, rate-of-growth controls, urban growth boundaries, mixed housing requirements, and regional planning. This important book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and professionals in community and regional planning; local public officials, as well as builders, developers, and others in the development community.
"This condensation ... reprinted as a contribution to the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, B.C., June 1976 ... "Initially developed through a grant by the National Science Foundation Research applied to National Needs Program to the University of Minnesota, and subsequently published as Urban Growth Management Systems, an evaluation of policy related research, by the American Society of Planning Officials".
Environment and the city looks at the evolution of cities in the developed and developing world, and the implications for resources consumption and environmental impacts, locally, regionally and globally. Urban areas are now habitat to over half of the world's population and also represent the most significant concentration of global environmental challenges. The range of major problems those are associated with the excessive consumption of resources; the generation of vast quantities of waste; the pollution of land, air and water; and a vast array of health and security concerns that would appear to be inevitable condition of dense urban living, in a concrete forest. The scale of problem facing cities in their attempt to become sustainable communities is considerable, and has become more severe over the past century. Cities are probably the most complex things that human beings have ever created. Urban Planning can be defined as the design and regulation of the uses of space that focus on the physical form, economic functions, and social impacts of the urban environment and on the location of different activities within it. It has been advertized as a new planning agenda, though the viewpoints regarding the meaning of sustainability are still diverse. The first is the appropriate geographical scale for action. Since 'local action' (a bottom-up perspective) is the consensus approach to practical action, and since a community can serve as the fundamental element of a hierarchical structure of an urban area, it would be appropriate to address sustainability at the scale of community development. In addition to this geographical scale, there is concern for finding an effective method to plan and manage local development in a sustainable manner. Urban growth management strategies consist of the various tools used to manage the amount, type, extent, rate, and quality of urban development. In other words, these tools can be used to manage how much growth occurs, what kind it is, where it occurs, how fast it happens, and with what impacts. Change is constant in our world and not all communities are dealing with the issues of growth. Some communities must manage the issues that derive from decline. Many communities have neighborhoods that are in decline while other parts prosper. Still, growth management strategies can be used to help those that are struggling, for instance, by concentrating investment in distressed areas. The focus of this work is to determine appropriate embryonic urban growth management strategies that can help to achieve a greater degree of community sustainability.
This text provides a considered proposal to restructure the land-use pattern that prevails in most American metropolitan areas. It is intended for students studying urban issues.
This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many government agencies make plans for their own programs or facilities, the comprehensive plan is the only planning document that considers multiple programs and that accounts for activities on all land located within the planning area, including both public and private property. Written by a former president of the American Planning Association, Community Planning is thorough, specific, and timely. It addresses such important contemporary issues as sustainability, walkable communities, the role of urban design in public safety, changes in housing needs for a changing population, and multi-modal transportation planning. Unlike competing books, it addresses all of these topics in the context of the local comprehensive plan. There is a broad audience for this book: planning students, practicing planners, and individual citizens who want to better understand local planning and land use controls. Boxes at the end of each chapter explain how professional planners and individual citizens, respectively, typically engage the issues addressed in the chapter. For all readers, Community Planning provides a pragmatic view of the comprehensive plan, clearly explained by a respected authority.
