New Urban Development: Looking Back to See Forward - Couverture rigide

Gruen, Claude

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813547938 ISBN 13 : 9780813547930

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The recent recession is one result of how local planning laws and practices have stifled competition, discouraged innovation, and artificially pushed up prices in America’s most economically vibrant regions. Economist and consultant Claude Gruen unravels the story behind how these unintended consequences have resulted from the evolution of local zoning, growth controls, and laws intended to increase housing affordability. `New Urban Development’ traces how locally induced housing cost increases led federal policy-makers to toss out the safeguards against lending excesses that had been put in place during the 1930s. But the story begins much earlier, during the colonial era, continuing up through the mortgage collapse that ushered in the recession of 2008. In his sweeping history of these issues, Gruen considers gentrification, environmentalism, sprawl, anti-sprawl movements, and more. His clarification of how urban development change occurs backs up his recommendations for increasing the production of housing and replacing obsolete commercial and industrial spaces with development that serves the twenty-first-century economy. `New Urban Development’ specifies thirteen changes to policies at the federal, state, and local levels to provide better and less expensive urban housing, desirable neighbourhoods, and thriving workplaces across the country.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813547938
• ISBN 13: 9780813547930
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible