Description
Book SynopsisDistorted price signals and flawed public policy create powerful and largely hidden perverse subsidies and incentives that promote urban sprawl.
Trade ReviewAnalytical and detailed in its approach and consistently daring in challenging accepted views of the causes of and solutions for urban sprawl.
-- Donner Prize Jury
Table of ContentsPreface
1 The Price of Sprawl
Part 1: The Planning Problem
2 Sprawl: A Planning Problem
3 The Costs and Benefits of Sprawl
Part 2: The Problem with Planning
4 The Costs and Benefits of Planning
5 How Do Our Cities Grow? Plans versus Reality
6 Prices Drive Sprawl
Part 3: Subsidies, Cross-Subsidies, and Mis-Incentives: How Public Policy Finances Sprawl
7 Municipal Services: Costs and Prices
8 Network Services: Costs and Prices
9 Housing, Infrastructure, and Energy: More Mis-Pricing and Mis-Incentives
10 Driving Sprawl: Pricing and Policy Mis-Incentives
Part 4: What to Do
11 Principles for a Market-Oriented Approach
12 A Toolbox of Market-Oriented Instruments
13 Perverse Subsidies, Perverse Cities
Notes
Bibliography
Index
