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Smart growth and its role in future planning and development remain confusing to many, including decision makers in the public arena who represent citizens hungry for strong policy, planning, and design solutions. The essays in this book cover the history of suburban growth, consequences of current growth and technological change, assumptions about design, urban and suburban neglect and revival, property rights, and environmental ethics.

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Sprawl, for at least half a century, has been Americans' dominant form of development. We love it, hate it, keep doing it. Yet in smart growth, however hazily defined, an alternative is finally being offered. The puzzle is how to make smart growth real. It's a debate critical to our land's future form, indeed our soul as people. In this volume, with a cornucopia of practical ideas, the challenge is artfully engaged. -- Neal Pierce, Citistates Group and Washington Post Writers Group The authors raise the question of whether individual cities and suburbs can deal effectively with the forces of decline and sprawl or whether a regional agenda is essential. The objective of the essays is not abstract conjecture but individual and collective action. America will continue to grow, like it or not. The challenge is not to stop growth but to shape it in a way that contains sprawl and offers attractive living choices for families of all descriptions and of all income levels. -- Norman Krumholz, College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University This book is a terrific resource to all of us who have to work with smart growth every day. Written with the intent of adding to the discussion and debate over the means and methods of intervening where and how we grow, it offers a remarkably wide set of perspectives and topics ranging from ethics, laws, and standards to trends and case studies....This thoughtful book will be an important addition to the working libraries of reflective planners, students, and others concerned with the future form of our communities. Its message is too strong for any of us to ignore. -- John R. Mullin, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sprawl, for at least half a century, has been Americans' dominant form of development. We love it, hate it, keep doing it. Yet in smart growth, however hazily defined, an alternative is finally being offered. The puzzle is how to make smart growth real. It's a debate critical to our land's future form, indeed our soul as people. In this volume, with a cornucopia of practical ideas, the challenge is artfully engaged. -- Neal Pierce, Citistates Group and Washington Post Writers Group This book is a terrific resource to all of us who have to work with smart growth every day. Written with the intent of adding to the discussion and debate over the means and methods of intervening where and how we grow, it offers a remarkably wide set of perspectives and topics ranging from ethics, laws, and standards to trends and case studies....This thoughtful book will be an important addition to the working libraries of reflective planners, students, and others concerned with the future form of our communities. Its message is too strong for any of us to ignore. -- John R. Mullin, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The authors raise the question of whether individual cities and suburbs can deal effectively with the forces of decline and sprawl or whether a regional agenda is essential. The objective of the essays is not abstract conjecture but individual and collective action. America will continue to grow, like it or not. The challenge is not to stop growth but to shape it in a way that contains sprawl and offers attractive living choices for families of all descriptions and of all income levels. -- Norman Krumholz, College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

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Terry S. Szold is principal of Community Planning Solutions, and has over 16 years of experience in land use, growth management, strategic and comprehensive planning. She served as planning director for the town of Burlington, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 1994, and held other senior planning positions in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Armando Carbonell is vice president of programs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.  

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