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Incentives, Regulations And Plans
The Role of States and Nation-states in Smart Growth Planning

Edited by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Executive Director, NCSGRE and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Maryland, US, Huibert A. Haccoû, Associate Professor, School of Environmental Planning and Building, Saxion Universities of Professional Education / Habiforum Foundation, The Netherlands, Kelly J. Clifton, Research Assistant Professor, NCSGRE and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Maryland, US and John W. Frece, Associate Director, NCSGRE and Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, US
Contents:

Introduction: Why Explore Smart Growth from a Trans-Atlantic Perspective?
Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Huibert A. Haccoû

PART I: URBAN CONTAINMENT
1. Urban Containment: European Experience of Planning for the Compact City
Cliff Hague

2. Containing Sprawl
Chang-Hee Christine Bae

PART II: MIXED USE
3. Encouraging Mixed Use in Practice
Jill Grant

4. Mixed Land Use in Germany: Opportunities, Benefits, and Constraints
Claus-Christian Wiegandt

PART III: AFFORDABLE HOUSING
5. Smart Growth: Opportunity or Threat to Affordable Housing?
Charles Connerly

6. Affordable Housing, Housing Strategies and Growth Management in Flanders (Belgium): Facts, Policy and Discourses
Jef E.J. Van den Broeck and Han Verschure

PART IV: TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
7. Transit-oriented Development in the US: Contemporary Practices, Impacts and Policy Directions
Robert Cervero

8. Transit-oriented Urban Environments Reduce Travel – A Fairytale?
Harry Timmermans

PART V: HEALTHY URBAN DESIGN
9. Healthy Urban Planning: The Anatomy of a WHO Healthy Cities Project
Hugh Barton

10. Healthy Urban Design: Maryland’s Smart Codes and the Pedestrian Environment
Kelly J. Clifton, Andréa Livi Smith and Rodney Harrell

PART VI: SMART GROWTH IMPLEMENTATION
11. Smart Growth Strategies as a Challenge for Dutch Developmental Planning Policies
Leonie B. Janssen-Jansen

12. State Plan and Smart Growth Implementation: The New Jersey Case
Martin A. Bierbaum

Conclusion: A Retrospective and a Call for More Trans-Atlantic Research
Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Huibert A. Haccoû

Index
2007 320 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 644 6 $ 130.00 on-line discount $ 117.00
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