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urban_sprawlReview Comments

"'Sprawl' is on just about every politician's lips—local, state and even national. This collection of essays is a superb guidebook through sprawl's political, economic, social, racial and environmental landscapes, with lots of useful concrete case materials."
—Chester Hartman
Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council

"Finally a book that conceptualizes sprawl as more than either a land use aesthetic or environmental problem to include links to urban disinvestment, racial and gender inequality, and power and politics. Hopefully, these thoughtful chapters will bring the concept of uneven development back into policy lexicon."
—Anne B. Shlay
Director, Center for Public Policy, Temple University

"A provocative guide to urban sprawl's causes, consequences, and solutions from A (apartheid, economic) to Z (zoning, inclusionary) conducted by America's outstanding scholar-activists."
—David Rusk
Author and urban policy consultant, former mayor of Albuquerque, NM

 

Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences & Policy Responses, edited by Gregory D. Squires, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 404 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-709-4, $32.50).

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