Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use

by Peter J. May, Raymond J. Burby, Philip R. Berke

Book Overview

How new experiments in growth management can reinvigorate land use planning and help local governments find new solutions to the problems caused by growth and change.

The message of this book is one of cautious optimism. New challenges to planning are coming forth . . . These have caused some state legislatures to be reluctant to create or strengthen comprehensive-planning requirements. We do not think that such challenges necessitate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185623X
• ISBN13: 9780801856235
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"