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Suburban sprawl : private decisions and public policy

Title: Suburban sprawl : private decisions and public policy / Wim Wiewel and Joseph J. Persky, editors.
Publication: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xviii, 322 pages : maps (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cities and contemporary society

Uniform Title

Cities and contemporary society.

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Contents

Introduction / Joseph J. Persky and Wim Wiewel -- 1. Public Works and Land Use: The Importance of Public Infrastructure in Chicago's Metropolitan Development, 1830-1970 / Bonnie Lindstrom -- 2. Urban Land Cover Change in Northeastern Illinois: A Landsat View from 1972 to 1997 / Y. Q. Wang -- 3. Property Taxes, Schools, and Sprawl / Richard F. Dye and Therese J. McGuire -- 4. Land Use Planning Tools in Illinois: Preventing or Promoting Sprawl? / Jean M. Templeton -- 5. Transportation in the Chicago Metropolitan Region Since 1970 / Joseph DiJohn -- 6. Commercial Motor Carrier Operations in the Northeast Illinois Region: Impacts on Land Use Trends Since 1970 / Piyushimita Thakuriah -- 7. The Role of Regional Planning Agencies in Suburban Deconcentration / Bonnie Lindstrom -- 8. Housing Policy and Urban Sprawl in the Chicago Metropolitan Region / Charles J. Orlebeke --
9. Employment Subcenters and Subsequent Real Estate Development in Suburban Chicago / John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen -- 10. High Technology Employment Concentration and Urban Sprawl in the Chicago Metropolitan Area / Daniel Felsenstein -- 11. The Impact of Federal and State Expenditures on Residential Land Absorption: A Quantitative Case Study - Chicago / Joseph J. Persky, Haydar Kurban and Thomas W. Lester -- 12. New Federal and State Policies for Metropolitan Equity / Wim Wiewel and Kimberly Schaffer.

ISBN

0765609673 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002066975

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries