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Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

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Land-use policy is on the center of suburban political economies because the whole lot has to happen somewhere but nothing happens on its own. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the house 1,000,000 people and a half-million jobs, 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County built a national reputation for innovation in land use policy―including inclusive zoning, linking zoning to master plans, preservation of farmland and open space, growth management, and transit-oriented development.A pervasive theme of Suburb involves the struggle for influence over land use policy between two virtual suburban republics. Developers, their business allies, and sympathetic officials sought a virtuous cycle of market-guided growth by which land was once a commodity and residents were customers who voted with their feet. Homeowners, environmentalists, and their allies saw themselves as citizens and stakeholders with moral claims on the way development occurred and made their wishes known on the ballot box. In a book so that it will be of particular interest to planning practitioners, attorneys, builders, and civic activists, Hanson evaluates how well the development pattern produced by decades of planning decisions served the public interest.


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