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Clearly, Managing Growth in America's Communities is a serious attempt to give some order to the bewildering diversity of stuff described as 'growth management.' -- Planning Douglas Porter provides an extremely valuable book for all those concerned with how we address the challenges of growth. He provides a broad understanding of the varied approaches across the country, their strengths and weaknesses, and so gives individuals a firm basis for approaching their local and regional growth problems. -- Linkages In this thoroughly revised edition, readers will learn 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. This is essential reading. -- Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment Planning consultant Douglas R. Porter, FAICP, has produced a second and heavily revised edition of his Managing Growth in America's Communities. He brings together the older impulse toward urban growth boundaries and infrastructure concurrency requirements with more recent developments, including new urbanism, traditional neighborhood development, smart growth, sustainable development, and the renewed appeal of urban living to certain demographics. -- Planning This book is a valuable text on techniques of growth management. It is a more valuable guide to decision makers about the importance of openness and creativity. -- Sustainable Communities

Planning consultant Douglas R. Porter, FAICP, has produced a second and heavily revised edition of his Managing Growth in America's Communities. He brings together the older impulse toward urban growth boundaries and infrastructure concurrency requirements with more recent developments, including new urbanism, traditional neighborhood development, smart growth, sustainable development, and the renewed appeal of urban living to certain demographics. --Planning In this thoroughly revised edition, readers will learn 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. This is essential reading. --Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment This book is a valuable text on techniques of growth management. It is a more valuable guide to decision makers about the importance of openness and creativity. --Sustainable Communities Clearly, Managing Growth in America's Communities is a serious attempt to give some order to the bewildering diversity of stuff described as 'growth management.' --Planning Douglas Porter provides an extremely valuable book for all those concerned with how we address the challenges of growth. He provides a broad understanding of the varied approaches across the country, their strengths and weaknesses, and so gives individuals a firm basis for approaching their local and regional growth problems. --Linkages

In this thoroughly revised edition, readers will learn 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. This is essential reading. --Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment Clearly, Managing Growth in America's Communities is a serious attempt to give some order to the bewildering diversity of stuff described as 'growth management.' --Planning Douglas Porter provides an extremely valuable book for all those concerned with how we address the challenges of growth. He provides a broad understanding of the varied approaches across the country, their strengths and weaknesses, and so gives individuals a firm basis for approaching their local and regional growth problems. --Linkages Planning consultant Douglas R. Porter, FAICP, has produced a second and heavily revised edition of his Managing Growth in America's Communities. He brings together the older impulse toward urban growth boundaries and infrastructure concurrency requirements with more recent developments, including new urbanism, traditional neighborhood development, smart growth, sustainable development, and the renewed appeal of urban living to certain demographics. --Planning This book is a valuable text on techniques of growth management. It is a more valuable guide to decision makers about the importance of openness and creativity. --Sustainable Communities

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Douglas R. Porter is a consultant on land use planning and policy issues based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He has written numerous books and documents for both ULI and APA. Anthony Downs at the Brooking Institution refers to Porter as ""one of the nation's leading experts in growth management.""

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