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The best-laid plans : how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future
- Title
- The best-laid plans : how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future / Randal O'Toole.
- Author
- O'Toole, Randal.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Cato Institute.
- Description
- ix, 416 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-392) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Forest planning -- The case of the fake forests -- Garbage in, gospel out -- A process of natural selection -- Analysis paralysis -- The return of fire dominance -- Why planning fails -- Radical doctrine or rational decisionmaking? -- Human barriers -- Planning is not necessary -- Land-use planning -- Urban renewal -- Turning Portland into L.A. -- How smart is "smart growth"? -- Smart growth as oppression -- Homeownership -- Housing affordability -- Housing bubbles -- It's supply, not demand -- Portland housing -- Smart growth and crime -- Portland planning implodes -- Why planners fail -- The planning profession -- The history of planning -- The ideal communist city -- Urban renewal in the United States -- From radiant city to smart growth -- Typical planning methods -- Transportation planning -- Planning vs. chaos -- The benefits of the automobile -- Costs exaggerated -- The panic over peak oil -- Planning for congestion -- Building auto-hostile streets -- The rail transit hoax -- Transportation myths -- Why government fails -- Power and rationality -- Legislators: seeking reelection -- Special interests: looking for handouts -- Bureaucrats: maximizing budgets -- The executive: distracted by detail -- Courts and voters: the last lines of defense -- Instead of planning -- 246 varieties of cheese -- Make the market work -- Turn open-access resources into property -- Protect public goods with trusts -- Understand government's limits -- Reforming public land management -- Reforming transportation -- Reforming land use -- The American dream.
- Call Number
- JBE 08-296
- ISBN
- 9781933995076 (alk. paper)
- 1933995076 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007028280
- OCLC
- 153580807
- vendorOCN153580807
- Author
- O'Toole, Randal.
- Title
- The best-laid plans : how government planning harms your quality of life, your pocketbook, and your future / Randal O'Toole.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-392) and index.
- Added Author
- Cato Institute.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 08-296