{"product_id":"atlanta-unbound-9781439909393","title":"Atlanta Unbound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eLooking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city’s notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning—particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Unbound, \u003c\/i\u003eCarlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta’s low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBasmajian’s shrewd analysis shows how regional policies spanned political boundaries and framed local debates over several decades. He examines the role of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s planning deliberations that appear to have contributed to the urban sprawl that they were designed to control. Basmajian explores four cases—regional land development plans, water supply strategies, growth management policies, and transportation infrastructure programs—to provide a detailed account of the interactions between citizens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments1   Introduction: An Intentional Region?2   Building the Atlanta Regional Commission3   The River and the Region: The Chattahoochee River and the Atlanta Regional Commission4   Projecting Sprawl? The 1976 Regional Development Plan of Metropolitan Atlanta5   Growth Management Comes to Georgia6   Atlanta’s Transportation Crisis and the Battle of the Northern Arc7  A Regional StoryNotesIndex\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408306872663,"sku":"9781439909393","price":53.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439909393.jpg?v=1730502374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/atlanta-unbound-9781439909393","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}