Smart Growth: Form and Consequences

Neal Peirce, Washington Post Writers Group
... how to make smart growth real.... In this volume, with a cornucopia of practical ideas, the challenge is artfully engaged.

John R. Mullin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This book is a terrific resource to all who have to work with smart growth every day.

Book Description
What smart growth is and how it should direct our future planning and development remain confusing to many observers, including decision makers in the public arena who must learn a new vocabulary and offer more than rhetoric to citizens hungry for strong policy, planning and design solutions. Whether one sees smart growth as a slogan, a catch phrase, a call to the barricades or perhaps even the battle flag waved by the enemy, it raises many questions that we need to answer. The chapters in this book offer eclectic and wide-ranging essays that take the reader through the history of suburban growth to the spatial and temporal consequences of the current state and stages of growth and technological change, and across the normative assumptions about design, urban and suburban neglect and revival, private versus public property rights, and environmental ethics.

About the Author
Terry S. Szold MIT Lecturer & Consulting Planner Community Planning Solutions


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Academics, planning and design practitioners, and citizen planners trace the history of suburban growth and assess the spatial and temporal consequences of the current state of growth and technological change, examining and challenging assumptions about design, urban and suburban neglect and revival, private versus public property rights, and environmental ethics. They look at concepts and practices of smart growth and discuss future trends. Material originated at a March 2000 symposium; it is not indexed. Edited by Szold (urban studies and planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Carbonell (planning and development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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