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The containment of urban America, or how to really revitalize central cities
| Author: |
Nelson, Arthur C.; Dawkins, Casey J. |
| Date: |
2000 |
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In: Fair Growth: Connecting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Social Equity; 2000 November 1; Atlanta, GA. Washington, DC: Fannie Mae Foundation |
| Abstract: |
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. We evaluate the association between central cities' share of metropolitan building permits issued and the presence of closed-region, open-region, and isolated urban containment. Closed regions are those where development is contained within a regional urban containment boundary and development outside that boundary is restricted. Open regions are those with a regional boundary but few restrictions on development outside. Isolated containment applies to cities that have installed containment boundaries around them and restricted development of land just outside the boundary but are not coordinated with other jurisdictions within the region or even within their own county. It appears from this analysis that successful central-city revitalization depends on regional urban containment accompanied by restrictions against low-density development outside boundaries and efforts to increase density within them. |
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