Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

Urban sprawl has become one of the key planning issues. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book compares how urban sprawl has developed in Western Europe and the USA, as well as the policies that have been developed and implemented to control it.

Contents: Introduction, Chang-Hee Christine Bae and Harry W. Richardson. Part I: The United Kingdom: Sustainable settlements and jobs-housing balance, Michael Breheny; Reducing sprawl and delivering an urban renaissance in England: are these aims possible given current attitudes to urban living?, Katie Williams; Push-pull forces in the spatial organization of Greater London and South East England, Terence Bendixson; Knowledge, decisions and urban form: implications from the socialist calculation debate, Mark Pennington; The thirty-year's experiment with British greenbelt policy in Korea: a convergent path to sustainable development, Sang-Chuel Choe. Part II: France and Continental Western Europe: Urban sprawl in Rennes and 77 urban areas in France, 1982-1999; Remy Prud'homme and Bernard-Henri Nicot; Urban sprawl in France 1990-1999, Alain Sallez and Julien Birgi; Urban sprawl: is there a French case?, Denise Pumain; Concentration and dispersal of employment in French cities, Jean-Marie Huriot; Location patterns of producer services: between centralization and urban sprawl; French and Swiss case studies, Antoine Bailly; Urbanization and the social origins of national policies toward sprawl, Jefferey Sellers. Part III: The United States of America: US population and employment trends and sprawl issues, Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon; Urban containment American style: a preliminary assessment, Arthur C. Nelson; Local innovations in controlling sprawl: experiences with several approaches in the Seattle urban region, Donald Miller; Immigration and densities: a contribution to the compact cities and sprawl debates, Chang-Hee Christine Bae; Transit and density: Atlanta, the United States and Western Europe, Alain Bertaud and Harry W. Richardson; Traffic and sprawl: evidence from US commuting, 1985 to 1997, Randall Crane and Daniel G. Chatman; Index.