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From quiet revolution to smart growth: State growth management programs, 1960 to 1999
| Author: |
Weitz, Jerry |
| Date: |
1999 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Planning Literature. Sage Publications, Inc. |
| Abstract: |
A decade ago, Daniel Mandelker (1989) argued that there are problems with existing classifications of state planning efforts. Those classification problems still remain today. Although state involvement in land use planning has certainly varied over time, scholars are literally all over the map with their descriptions and classifications of state land use programs. As a result of these classification problems, there are remarkable variations in scholarly assessments of how many states, and which states, have implemented state growth management programs. Those assessments deserve some reconsideration and reconciliation, and a new classification of elements of state growth management programs is needed. The two key objectives of this bibliography are (1) to identify the universe of significant state growth management programs in the United States since Hawaii began ii new age of state planning in 1961 and (2) to determine which states are considered or should be considered growth management states. This annotated bibliography provides a classification scheme for elements of state growth management programs that is based on the Model Land Development Code (MLDC) in an effort to fill the need for a better classification system. However, this bibliography will not end the debate. Universal acceptance of the current number of growth management states and the qualifications for the status of a growth management state is largely unattainable. However, this bibliography is one of the first recent attempts to (1) determine, based on a thorough literature review, which states have been considered growth management states, and (2) classify the elements of the state growth management programs implemented in those states. |
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