Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl

by Pamela Blais

Book Overview

Urban sprawl - low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls - has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. In Perverse Cities , Pamela Blais argues that flawed public policies and mis-pricing create hidden, "perverse" subsidies and incentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient and sustainable urban forms - clearly not what most planners and environmentalists have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774818964
• ISBN13: 9780774818964
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"