Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon

by Peter A. Walker and Patrick T. Hurley

Book Overview

"Sprawl" is one of the ugliest words in the American political lexicon. Virtually no one wants America's rural landscapes, farmland, and natural areas to be lost to bland, placeless malls, freeways, and subdivisions. Yet few of America's fast-growing rural areas have effective rules to limit or contain sprawl.

Oregon is one of the nation's most celebrated exceptions. In the early 1970s Oregon established the nation's first and only comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528837
• ISBN13: 9780816528837
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"