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This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Economic modeling for large-scale urban tree plantings

Large-scale urban tree planting is advocated to conserve energy and improve environmental quality, yet little data exist to evaluate its economic and ecologic implications. This paper describes an economic-ecologic model applied to the Trees for Tucson/Global ReLeaf reforestation program. The ...

Atlanta megasprawl

) For the past five decades, the dominant growth pattern for nearly all metropolitan areas in the United States has been sprawl: random unplanned growth that makes access to housing, jobs, schools, hospitals, and mass transit difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. Typically, sprawl-driven ...

Assessing the benefits of wildfire risk reduction: A contingent valuation approach

The value of reductions in the risk of wildfire-induced structure loss was assessed for residents of a Michigan jack pine forest via the contingent valuation method. Using a joint probability model of fire risk, values for risk reduction accomplished by public and private actions were estimated ...

Land use assessment: Independent studies reveal positive fiscal benefits for Virginia localities

The reason land use assessment is coming under more scrutiny is because the general public believes the program is simply a tax break for the wealthy. The general public does not realize that even with land use assessment that land in agriculture, forestry production and open space pays its fair ...

Land use and community costs in Augusta County, Virginia

In February 1992, the Valley Conservation Council (VCC) was awarded a grant by the Center on Rural Development (CORD) to study the fiscal impact of different land uses on the finances of Augusta County. This study is intended to assist county officials and citizens in assessing the relationship ...

La estructuracion de la ciudad en el conurbano

El articulo aborda una lectura de los procesos sociales dentro de los limites municipales de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, inscripta en el contexto de las transforrnaciones hiortricas de las funciones y caracteristicas del espacio urbano y de la poblacicon, de ese centro y sobre todo en la relacion ...

Ownership matters: Forestland concentration in rural Alabama

The land tenure literature theorizes relationships between land tenure patterns and rural well-being which have application in the analysis of contemporary trends in forestland ownership in the U.S. South. Of particular interest are impacts of landownership concentration on the well-being of rural ...

Greene County: Productive past, bright future

 

Forest stewardship education: Fostering positive attitudes in urban youth

Philadelphia middle school students participated in a forestry education program that involved activities in the classroom, an urban forest, and a demonstration forest. A better understanding of forest stewardship, as evidenced by students' increased knowledge and shifting attitudes, was the ...

Forest fragmentation in the East: Does it impact resource and economic health?

In the Chesapeake Bay watershed (including portions of the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia), forests cover 59% of the land base or 24 million of the 41 million acres in the basin. However, the Region is losing forest land at more ...

Florida wildfire mitigation

 

Fiscal impacts of residential development in Culpeper County, Virginia

The Piedmont Environmental Council has compiled a study of the fiscal impacts of residential development in Culpeper County, Virginia. This study identifies the capital costs for new public facilities, the need for which would be generated by future residential development. In particular the ...

Fiscal impacts of major land uses: Culpeper County

Inspired by a similar study from the Loudoun County Planning Department, the Piedmont Environmental Council has compiled a study of the fiscal impacts of major land uses in Culpeper County. The analysis examines the Culpeper County budget for FY82-83 to identify the revenues and expenditures for ...

Connecting people with ecosystems in the 21st century: An assessment of our nation's urban forests

This report is the first national assessment of urban forest resources in the United States and details variations in urbanization and urban tree cover across the United States by state, county, and individual urban area. It illustrates local-scale variation, complexity, and connectedness of the ...

Cluster housing at the rural-urban fringe: The search for adequate and satisfying places to live

Communities at the rural-urban fringe face a significant challenge. The challenge is to accommodate new residential development in ways that preserve agricultural land and rural character while providing individuals with satisfying places to live. Cluster designed housing developments have been ...

A GIS-based analysis and prediction of parcel land-use change in a coastal tourism destination area

South Carolina is the nation's second largest coastal resort state in terms of beach destination trips, superseded only by Florida. Its coastal resources and tourism industry are now undergoing tremendous coastal change due to tourism development and associated commercial and residential growth. As ...

A comparison of the policy, social, and cultural contexts for telecommuting in Japan and the United States

Active experimentation with telecommuting in both the United States and Japan is among the most extensive in the world. However, policy, social, and cultural distinctions result in some important differences in the way telecommuting is adopted by each country. This paper presents a comparison of ...

Impact of state income taxes on timber investments

The major objectives of federal tax reform were to broaden the tax base by closing loopholes and lowering federal tax rates. If affected states accept the resulting increase in adjusted gross income without lowering their tax rates, a considerable state tax increase will result. There is currently ...

The containment of urban America, or how to really revitalize central cities

Planners throughout this century have advocated containment of urban sprawl through regulatory growth boundaries, greenbelts, utility extension policy, and other means. One of the objectives of containment is to concentrate development within areas already urbanized, particularly in central cities. ...

Symposium on Coastal Management: Planning on the Edge

The first general lesson from coastal management is that it shows there is a time to plan and a time to act. The federal coastal program recognized this lesson from the start by separating the planning and implementation stages and requiring states to progress from planning to management. Other ...

Sustaining Private Forests in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Forest Fragmentation 2000 Conference

Forests are being parceled and peopled. More and more of America's private working forests are being fragmented into smaller pieces that are less viable economically and ecologically: so concluded most of the more than 50 papers and posters presented at the Fragmentation 2000 Conference. According ...

Sprawl costs us all: A guide to the costs of suburban sprawl and how to create livable communities in Virginia

This report examines the differences in benefits and costs between land use decisons that stimulate low-density sprawl development at the outer edges of urban centers and alternatives which would result in smarter growth. The report includes much statewide information, but focuses on northern ...

Michigan's commercial forest act: An option for the future

In the United States, privately owned timberland accounts for approximately 351 million acres, or 48 percent of the total land area. In some states, private landowners may enroll their lands under special forest tax laws, designed to favor maintenance of productive forests. Assessors, appraisers; ...

Wildfire: Managing the hazard in urbanizing areas

Demographic trends over the past two decades indicate growth in rural communities and a preference for rural living. As a result, a new natural hazard, the urban-wildland fire, has become a land use problem of considerable proportion.Urban-wildland fires can cause extensive property damage and ...

Wilderness: Rural and urban attitdes and perceptions

Seventy-five urban and 75 rural residents participated in a study of attitudes toward and perceptions of wilderness. Results of an attitude questionnaire indicated that both rural and urban respondents expressed a positive attitude toward wilderness and a relatively high degree of environmental ...

What capacity the land?

The old environmental management paradigms based on reductionistic perspectives have not served us well. Our problems are more complex because of our limited scientific and technical knowledge, more costly because of the scale of perturbation, and more controversial because of the large ...

Urbanization and community attachment in rural areas

The effects of urbanization on community attachment were examined using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four rural communities with differing levels of urban presence and pressure in Pennsylvania. Building upon Wirth's (1938) theory of urbanism, ...

There goes the neighborhood

Americans are at last beginning to question what a half-century flood of suburban expansion has wrought. Distressed about traffic jams, deteriorating air quality, and the loss of forests and rural lands to cookie cutter suburbs, residents in places like Cherokee County are saying enough is enough ...

Wrestling sprawl to the ground: Defining and measuring an elusive concept

The literature on urban sprawl confuses causes, consequences, and conditions. This paper presents a conceptual definition of “sprawl” based on eight distinct dimensions of land use patterns: density, continuity, concentration, compactness, centrality, nuclearity, diversity, and proximity. Sprawl is ...

Some realities about sprawl and urban decline

Many urban analysts believe suburban sprawl has become an important issue because it helps generate two types of problems: growth-related difficulties like rising traffic congestion, and high concentrations of poor minority households in core-area neighborhoods. However, a careful regression ...

Scenario planning for a fair growth agenda

This paper uses scenario planning to starkly illustrate the careful balance between choosing to grow smart and choosing to grow equitably. Scenario planning creates multiple scenarios that markedly diverge from one another so that the large-scale trends of the future are made visible. The objective ...

Retaining agricultural activities under urban pressures: A review of land use conflicts and policies

From a national perspective it is unclear whether the continued expansion of urban development seriously affects America's potential food production over the long run. Yet there are clearly regional biases toward conversion of farmland to urban uses and locally important changes in the appearance ...

The rural-urban interface in England: a framwork of analysis

The post war years have seen a steady flow of immigration into the rural hinterlands of conurbations, emanating both from the surrounding rural areas and from the urban complexes themselves. By 1981 over one-fifth of Britain's population was resident in a rural district, the majority falling within ...

Reston home owners association open space management and development

Reston, Virginia is a planned community of 40,000 residents in northern Virginia. A non-profit homeowners association owns and administers all common open space and community facilities for the use and benefit of residents. Funding is by automatic assessment of all homeowners. Current management ...

Reshuffling the social deck: from mass migration tothe transformation of the American ethnic hierarchy

The current socioeconomic hierarchy of white ethnic groups has been puzzling many of us. It is clear there has been a considerable reshuffling of the social deck during this century. I have argued here that one place to look for circumstances at force in that reshuffling is to principles underlying ...

Remittances and inequality: A question of mitigation stage and geographic scale

Over the past decade, the benefits from economic globalization have bypassed most developing countries, and as a result international wage-labor migration has taken on new importance. The impact of remittances on migrant origins is still, however, a subject of considerable debate. Some researchers ...

Urban tree-planting programs - a model for encouraging environmentally protective behavior

Efforts to increase environmentally sound behaviors and practices have in the past often focused on consciousness-raising and attitude change. Research indicates that such efforts are less effective than interventions designed to make environmentally sound behaviors easier to engage in, or to make ...

Race, ethnicity, and class in American suburbs

The postwar trend in migration from central cities to the suburbs continues. In recent decades, this wave of migration has included increasing numbers of Asians, Hispanics, and blacks. The authors focus on the spatial overlap of race, ethnicity, and class in a large sample of suburban communities. ...

Prairie conservation in North America

The health and future of the earth's ecological systems (Dailey and Ehrlich 1992), their link to the well being of communities and nations (Raven 1990), and the ever-increasing rate of loss of species, communities, and ecological systems (Myers 1993) are among issues drawing biological diversity ...

Dumping in Dixie revisited: The evolution of environmental injustices in South Carolina

Much of the environmental justice research has focused on outcome – the relative location of hazardous facilities and low-income or minority populations. While presenting a snapshot of contemporary inequities, these studies fail to demonstrate some of the underlying causes that produced such ...

Draft Management Plan: Meeting the invasive species challenge

Invasive species do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries. As the current trend of growth in world markets continues, an unfortunate side effect is the increased potential for the movement of invasive species. In February 1999, the President responded to these problems, issuing Executive Order ...

Cycles within the system: Metropolitanisation and internal migration in the US, 1965-90

This paper uses a typology of local metropolitan development to examine population redistribution trends in the US over the past three decades. Theories of systemic maturation and urban life cycles are discussed and evaluated. Analysis of population and inter-county migration data reveals that ...

Asserting the political self: Community activism among black women who relocate to the rural south

In this article, I address the collective process of politicization in a group of urban working-class black women who have departed from large cities in the northeast United States and resettled in small towns and scattered, isolated rural communities in the Southeast. The study examines how ...

Options for regional decision making in metro Atlanta

This report provides the policy and constitutional foundation for crafting regional decision-making approaches to meet regional challenges in a way that simultaneously sustains economic development and improves the quality of life. The culture of Atlanta is decidedly pro-growth. Where the old money ...

Occupational status of rural outmigrants and return migrants

This research analyzes the occupational status payoffs to short-term outmigration and return migration For male workers in a developing country. Using an occupational status model that integrates explanations from the status attainment and migration literatures and longitudinal data from the ...

Growth management principles and practices

This book provides an overview of various local, regional, and state approaches to growth management and an analysis of the applicability of selected growth management techniques. Chapter 1 begins with a review of the theoretical underpinnings of growth management, including the need for public ...

Geographic morbidity differentials in the late nineteenth-century United States

We use a national cross-sectional database, the 1880 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample, to examine aggregate patterns and individual-level estimates of chronic-disease morbidity and long-term disability in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Despite higher levels of urban ...

Flight from blight and metropolitan suburbanization revisited

Patterns of metropolitan suburbanization were analyzed for 51 large metropolitan areas. Migration data indicate that suburban population growth attributed to in-migration from outside the metropolitan area is substantially greater, on average, than that attributed to city-to-suburb migration. ...

Firesmart: Protecting your community from wildfire

The wildland/urban interface is any area where industrial or agricultural installations, recreational developments, or homes are mingled with flammable natural vegetation. This illustrated guide focuses on how individuals and communities can work together to reduce the risk of loss from interface ...

Coping with the displaced farm family: The new rural migration

With the current state of affairs in the farm economy, more and more farms are foreclosing and rural businesses are shutting down. With this loss of employment, rural families are being uprooted and being forced to relocate in other rural areas or, more typically, to urban areas. This change of ...

Accounting for two population turnarounds in nonmetropolitan America

This article compares the magnitude of the three changes in net migration and contrasts the two nonmetropolitan turnarounds. We compare migration trends in nonmetropolitan areas, older metropolitan territory, new metropolitan fringes, and newly-recognized metropolitan areas, and we try to identify ...

A national investment in sustainable forestry: Addressing the stewardship of nonfederal forestlands through research, education, and extension/outreach

America's forests are of vital importance for the many benefits they provide: wood and fiber products, air quality, water conservation, biotic diversity, recreational enjoyment, aesthetic value, and a host of other amenities. Sustaining these forests to meet increasing societal demands requires ...

Impacts of lakeshore residential development on coarse woody debris in north temperate lakes

Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a critical input from forested watersheds into aquatic ecosystems. Human activities often reduce the abundance of CWD in fluvial systems, but little is known about human impacts on CWD in lakes. We surveyed 16 north temperate lakes to assess relationships among CWD, ...

How to reduce wildfire risk

The purpose of this bulletin is to help stop a national tragedy. The annual loss of homes destroyed by wildfire would lessen if more people were aware of (1) the fact that no area of the country is immune to these disasters, (2) that the right use of trees and other vegetation - not necessarily ...

How green is my valley? Tracking rural and urban environmentalism in the Southern Appalachian Ecoregion

Research on the social bases of environmentalism in the United States has generally found that urban residents are more concerned about the environment than rural residents. Recent research suggests this may no longer be the case, particularly in specific settings or under certain conditions. This ...

How changes in the economy are reshaping American values

The impact of affluence on peoples' values has proved powerful but curiously indirect. Economic changes do not by themselves transform values; what does is people's perceptions of their own, and their nation's, affluence (referred to throughout this paper as "the affluence effect"). There is, of ...

Helping communities help themselves: Industry-community relations for sustainable timber-dependent communities

Social, political and economic conditions are changing in rural Canada. The forest industry has operated in rural communities throughout the nation for several centuries and the relationships between forest companies and communities have evolved over that time. This paper outlines a model for ...

The effects of rural-to-urban migration on the poverty status of youth in the 1980s

The effects of rural-to-urban migration on the poverty status of migrants have not been adequately explored. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine poverty status before and after a rural-to-urban migration, a proportional hazards model of time spent in poverty that ...

The economic impact of rural-to-urban migration in the United States: Evidence for male labor-force participants

This paper investigates the effect of rural-to-urban migration on the economic status of migrants. Methods. The effect of migration is measured by the difference between the migrant's observed economic status, up to six years after the move, and the estimated economic status that the migrant would ...

The changing American countryside: Rural people and places

Rural people and places in America are poorly understood and largely neglected by the people who write, speak, and thereby influence attitudes about social problems and public policy. Misunderstanding and neglect are prevalent in much of academia as well, and it is academics who typically provide ...

Taxation, regulation and fragmentation of forestland

Some degree of forest fragmentation or parcelization is natural and needed to (1) provide for the non-forestland needs of a growing population and (2) provide the opportunity of forestland ownership to a larger part of the population. U. S. forest area is still increasing and fragmentation, not yet ...

Strategic planning in urban forestry: A 21st century paradigm shift for small town Canada

The pressures created by urban sprawl are leading to a reduction in forested land in Canada and North America. Poorly controlled land-use planning contributes to the haphazard urbanization of many small communities within commuting distance of major urban centers. Urban forests are largely ignored ...

Mistrust, fragmented solidarity, and transnational migration: Colombians in New York and Los Angeles

This article compares the transnational economic, political, and sociocultural relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. The vast majority of these migrants are middle class and originally from large urban areas, which differs from the typical rural ...

Migration and race in the southern United States

The South continues to have a much higher proportion of blacks than any other region in the United States, and a larger share of them live in nonmetropolitan areas. Black nonmetropolitan residents often live in areas with high poverty rates, unemployment, and unfavorable health conditions such as ...

Logging and fragmentation of broadleaved deciduous forests: Are we asking the right ecological questions?

Contemporary logging practices: (1) change the scale of disturbance in eastern forests, generally increasing the size of openings; (2) change the rotation of disturbance in eastern forests, generally increasing the frequency of large canopy opening; (3) remove woody debris; (4) change soil ...

Livin' for the city: African American ethnogenesis and depression era migration

Urban ethnogenesis is a process by which a group creates and maintains social networks and communication patterns as the basis for institutional and communal life in urban areas. Ethnogenesis is a foundation upon which most historical, urbanward migrations have been built, including the "Great ...

Lessons for effective urban-containment and resource-land-preservation policy

Many states in the United States arc attempting to manage urban growth so that development is directed to urban areas equipped to accommodate development, and rural lands are preserved for resource and other nonurban uses. Oregon leads the nation in growth-management experience. This article ...

When deaths exceed births: natural decrease in the United States

Natural decrease is no longer rare in the United States. By 1989, 34 percent of all U.S. counties had experienced at least one year of it. Natural decrease is most common in rural areas remote from metropolitan centers. Regional concentrations of natural decrease exist in the Great Plains, the Corn ...

Using economic base models to explain new trends in rural income

The economies of urban and rural areas in the United States continue to experience change in their structure, leading to changes in their economic base. This paper argues that nontraditional sources of income, employment, and business activity have become more important in the economic base of ...

Trees and our air: The role of trees and other vegitation in Houston-area air polution

This report has two major sections. The first concerns emissions from trees and other vegetation and their role in area air pollution. The second summarizes available information about the direct and indirect benefits of trees on urban air quality and quality of life. It is our hope, by bringing ...

Transspecies urban theory

Contemporary urban theory is anthropocentric. In an effort to foreground a transspecies urban theory, we critically assess research on the impacts of urbanization on the natural environment, the range of human-animal interactions in the city, dimensions of urban wildlife ecology, and urban wildlife ...

Transnational migrant communities and Mexican migration to the US

In this article we explore the variability of US-Mexico migration, positioning the emerging discourse on transnational migration within a migration systems approach. Looking at factors in the social and economic structures of Mexico and the US, we evaluate the prevalence of transnational migration ...

Timberland "erosion": Urbanization and the loss of timberland

Forest surveys overstate available timber supplies because much urban and suburban land meets the USFS technical criteria for, and is classified as, timberland. In Georgia, 17% of the 1989 timberland acreage falls in metropolitan (MSA) counties, representing 22$ of the state's standing sawtimber. ...

Sociology's potential to improve forest management and inform forest policy

Sociology has made only minor contributions to forest management and policy in the past. Changes in the dominant paradigm of forest management have opened a window of opportunity for practical applications of sociology in a forestry context. Sociological analyses of stakeholder values, social ...

Sites of danger and risk: African Americans return to the rural South

My intent in this essay is to pivot the center of our concerns, indeed, to move us off center from a particularized definition of our subject as urban. I hope to entangle rural spaces within urban dichotomies, ultimately re-defining the subject of our inquiry. My comments are based on my own ...

Rural and suburban forest edges: Effect on egg predators and nest predation rates

Although the observed declines of many species of Neotropical migratory birds have been linked to losses in the wintering grounds, it is important to examine sources of mortality from all portions of the annual cycle to fully understand migratory bird declines. Forest fragmentation and the creation ...

Rethinking the informal economy: Implications for regional analysis

The purpose of this paper is to specify some of the linkages, relationships, and common denominators shared by the rural and urban informal economies in a Midwestern Appalachian region. Analyzing rural and urban informal economies together is unusual in economic anthropology. Almost none of the ...

The North American back-to-the-land movement

Over the past three decades there has been a fluctuating counter-stream migration from urban-to-rural North America. One segment of this `turnaround' migration is the back-to-the-land movement of former urban residents who move to the countryside to practice semi-subsistence agriculture and search ...

The implications of contemporary redistribution trends for national urban policy

The aim of this paper is to examine contemporary inter- and intra-regional redistribution trends with an eye toward drawing implications for revised national urban policies. Because of space constraints, assessment is restricted to the more general trends and, therefore, some highly diverse ...

Residential relocation and regional redistribution of the elderly in the USA and Germany

This paper reviews some of the principal differences and similarities in the migration and spatial redistribution behavior of the older populations of the USA and of Germany. The German situation has changed quite dramatically in recent years, as the consolidation of the former German Democratic ...

Residential city suburbs: the emergence of a new suburban type, 1880-1930

Focusing on these large suburbs during the period from 1880 to 1930, this article seeks to identify and define a particular suburban type, the "residential city suburb"; to trace the internal organization of a "typical" city suburb to demonstrate its complexity and diversity; and to suggest the ...

Renewed population growth in rural America

Nonmetropolitan America has experienced widespread population gain and net in-migration since 1990. This contrasts with the trend evident through most of this century. Such population growth is consistent with the process of deconcentration posited by human ecology. However, this deconcentration ...

Urban sprawl, density, and accessibility

Suburban sprawl is often criticized on the grounds that it results in low density land uses. A model is developed and calibrated in which a planning agency can influence the sequencing and densities of two phases of suburban development on the fringe. In this model an Ogawa-Fujita accessibility ...

Regional versus local accessibility: Implications for nonwork travel

The question of how alternative forms of development affect travel patterns has recently been the focus of a heated debate, much of which centers on the effects of suburbanization in particular. The concept of accessibility provides an important tool for resolving this question. By measuring both ...

Pushing the density envelope

If you build it, they will come. It is not a baseball field in Iowa, but affordable detached housing in a market where the median new-home price is $298,000 and land sells for $550,000 an acre. They are young professionals who would like to own new houses in Southern California's desirable Orange ...

Protecting stream and riparian corridors: Creating effective local riparian buffer ordinances

The foundation of Protecting Stream and River Corridors: Creating Effective Local Riparian Buffer Ordinances is a set of buffer-width guidelines that are based upon one of the most comprehensive scientific reviews conducted to date. This scientific basis is designed to ensure that buffer ordinances ...

Effects of urbanization on agricultural activities

Expansion of urban, suburban, and exurban development into agricultural landscapes and other rural settings has prompted much public concern over land use. Alarming estimates of the loss of farmland have been suggested, as have startling visions of extensive idling of farmland in anticipation of ...

Discontinuous urban development and economic efficiency

This paper has presented reasons for believing that discontinuous urban development may often be consistent with efficient allocation of resources. In particular, we have discussed in some detail two possible cases where discontinuous development patterns may represent efficient allocations of land ...

Designing high-density single-family housing: Variations on the zero-lot-line theme

Americans overwhelmingly prefer owning detached single-family homes to apartments or townhouses, yet more and more of them cannot pay the price. The increasingly popular solution to this dilemma is well-planned, but high-density, single-family developments. The search for ways to achieve density in ...

Density: Whether you build attached, single-family,or multifamily, here's how to make high density work for your buyers and you

In suburbs across the land, the push is on to eke houses out of every buildable acre. For local officials, concentrating development means less sprawl and the potential for more open space. For you, boosting density means boosting profits. But for your buyers, high-density living can mean a loss of ...

Beyond density, mode choice, and single-purpose trips

There are those who believe that land use patterns affect every aspect of household travel behavior, from trip rates to mode choices. They advocate compact development, urban villages, neo-traditional neighborhoods, pedestrian pockets, transit-oriented developments, mixed-use activity centers, and ...

Land devlopment pressure on peri-urban forests: A case study in the Regional Municipality of York

Forests patches and forest fragmentation were quantified for seven area municipalities within the Regional Municipality of York for the period from 1975 to 1988. This quantification made it possible to determine the extent of forest changes in space and time. In 1988, forest cover shrank to 30%-50% ...

Is Los Angeles-style sprawl desirable?

This article reviews the literature on characteristics, causes, and costs of alternative development patterns. In doing so it debunks arguments by Cordon and Richardson in favor of Los Angeles-style sprawl. Sprawl is not suburbanization generally, but rather forms of suburban development that lack ...

Forest ecosystem management: An ecological, economic, and social assessment

The effort reported here is conceived as Phase I of a multiphased approach to ecosystem management. In the first phase, the "backbone" for ecosystem management for the federal forest within the range of the northern spotted owl is, in varying combinations, constructed of a network of ...

Conserving wooded areas in developing communities: Best management practices in Minnesota

This best management practices (BMPs) guidebook for conserving wooded areas in developing communities of Minnesota was developed by an advisory committee composed of a wide representation of stakeholders from public, private, and nonprofit organizations. The goals of these BMPs are: to provide ...

Clean water action plan: Restoring and protecting America's waters

After 25 years of progress, the nation's clean water program is at a crossroads. Implementation of the existing programs will not stop serious new threats to public health, living resources, and the nation's waterways, particularly from polluted runoff. These programs lack the strength, resources, ...

Characteristics, causes, and effects of sprawl: A literature review

The physical characteristics, causes, and effects of sprawl must be understood before sprawl can be effectively regulated. Relying on the literature in the field, this paper provides a conceptual framework against which DCA's proposed sprawl rule can be judged and upon which the final rule can rest.

Changes in non-federal land base involving forestry in western Oregon, 1961-94

Temporal and spatial analyses of land use changes on non-Federal lands in western Oregon between 1961 and 1994 were conducted. Two distinct changes in the region were a loss of forestlands and an increase in urban areas. Neither the rates of change over time nor the spatial distribution of land ...

Accessibility and intraurban travel

This paper contains an examination of the fundamental assumption underlying the use of accessibility indicators: that an individual's travel behavior is related to his or her location vis-à-vis the distribution of potential activity sites. First, the conceptual and measurement issues surrounding ...

Hottest hits in single-family housing

At ULI's 1995 fall meeting in Philadelphia last November, a panel of leading architects and planners from around the United States sliced and diced trends in single-family production housing at a session titled "The Hottest Hits in Housing from Coast to Coast." Smaller lots dominated much of the ...