Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

by Royce Hanson

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the home a million people and a half-million jobs, Montgomery County built a national reputation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501705253
• ISBN13: 9781501705250
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher