Atlanta Unbound: Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning

by Carlton Wade Basmajian

Looking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city's notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning--particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In Atlanta Unbound, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta's low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned. Basmajian's shrewd analysis shows how regional policies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439909393
• ISBN13: 9781439909393
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.1"