Description
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Trade ReviewA rigorously researched and informative book on the effects of state planning mandates on local planmaking and local growth management... the book is essential reading. -- Ernest Sternberg Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The States and Planning Mandates
Part I: State Experiments in Managing Land Use
Chapter 2. California: Coping with Congestion
Chapter 3. North Carolina: Mandated Planning to Protect the Coast
Chapter 4. Florida: Putting it All Together
Chapter 5. Texas and Washington: Marching to a Different Drummer
Part II: Mandate Design and Outcomes
Chapter 6. Designing and Implementing Mandates
Chapter 7. Enhancing Planning
Chapter 8. Managing Development
Part III: Prospects for Making Governments Plan
Chapter 9. Rethinking Planning Mandates
Appendix: Research Design and Measurement of Variables
References
Index
