CiNii Books - Building rules : how local controls shape community environments and economies

Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion, and more intangible worries about "quality of life." Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local "growth machines." Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.

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The Relevance of Regulation -- Sites -- Has Growth Been Stopped? Not Much -- Power to Build: How Cities Grow Under Growth Control -- Project Peddling: What Gets Approved and How -- Indirect Effects: How Building Rules Make Growth Different -- Building the Rules -- Measuring Growth Control Impacts -- Chronologies of Growth Control -- Case Study Details -- Interview Schedule

Volume: ISBN 9780813368467

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Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about quality of life. Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local growth machines. Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
1. The Relevance of Regulation
Environmentalism as Local Urge
The Critique: Stranglers of the Economy
Economy Versus the Environment: Some Past Findings
Local Regulation and Urban Theory
Assessing Regulation
Plan of the Book
2. Sites
Learning from Southern California
Selecting Study Sites
Identifying Growth Controls
Santa Barbara South Coast
Santa Monica
The Riverside Area
Growth Controls in Place: A Summary
3. Has Growth Been Stopped? Not Much
First Findings: Rates of Growth
Testing the Power of Growth Restrictions
An Alternative Testing Strategy
4. Power to Build: How Cities Grow Under Growth Control
Growth Through Symbolic Growth Control
Growth Through Episodic Growth Control
Growth Through Countervailing Policies
Growth Through Developer Initiatives
The Context of Control: Comparative Power Advantages
The Ways of Growth
5. Project Peddling: What Gets Approved and How
Peddling Around with Our Projects
What Gets Approved and How
Project Environmental Reviews
Local Knowledge Base for Planning Decisions
Resisting Growth: A Matter of Degree
6. Indirect Effects: How Building Rules Make Growth Different
Traffic
Natural Limits
Affordable Housing
Social Equity
Urban Spatial Form
Project Aesthetics
Exactions on the Ground: A Tally Between Places
7. Building the Rules
Enhancing the Quality of Public Decisions
Regulation as Economic Boon
Grounding Sustainability
Who Wins What?
Making Markets Smarter
Valuing Land and Community
Balancing Commercial and Public Interests
Taking Stock of Local Controls
Appendix A : Measuring Growth Control Impacts
Appendix B: Chronologies of Growth Control
Appendix C: Commercial Valuation Data, 1970-1990
Appendix D: Residential Building Rates
Appendix E: Case Study Details
Appendix F: Interview Schedule
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