The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

by Casey J. Dawkins and Arthur C. Nelson

Book Overview

One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limiting the growth of cities in an attempt to preserve open rural uses, such as habitat, agriculture and forestry, in urban regions. While there has been a substantial amount of research into these urban containment policies, most have focused on issues of land use, consumption, transportation impacts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138262277
• ISBN13: 9781138262270
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"