Atlanta Unbound : Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning.
Looking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city's notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning-particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In Atlanta Unbound, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta's...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Temple University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Summary: | Looking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city's notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning-particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In Atlanta Unbound, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta's low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned. Basmajian's shrewd analysis shows how regional policies spanned political boundaries and framed local debates over several decades. He examines the role of the Atlan. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1299834442 9781299834446 9781439909416 1439909415 9781439909393 1439909393 9781439909409 1439909407 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |