| Description |
1 online resource. |
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| Series |
Urban life, landscape, and policy
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Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : An Intentional Region? -- Building the Atlanta Regional Commission -- The River and the Region : The Chattahoochee River and the Atlanta Regional Commission -- Projecting Sprawl? The 1976 Regional Development Plan of Metropolitan Atlanta -- Growth Management Comes to Georgia -- Atlanta's Transportation Crisis and the Battle of the Northern Arc -- A Regional Story. |
| 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. This book shows that Atlanta's low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned. The author shows how regional policies spanned political boundaries and framed local debates over several decades in the city's history. The author explores four cases-regional land development plans, water supply strategies, growth management policies, and transportation infrastructure programs-to provide a detailed account of the interactions between citizens, planners, regional commissions, state government, and federal agencies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Georgia -- Atlanta.
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Urbanization. |
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Georgia -- Atlanta. |
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Urban policy -- Georgia -- Atlanta.
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Urban policy. |
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Regional planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta.
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Regional planning. |
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City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta.
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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Population.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning. |
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City planning. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. |
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Population. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781299834446 |
| ISBN |
1299834442 (electronic book) |
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9781299834446 (electronic book) |
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9781439909416 (electronic book) |
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1439909415 (electronic book) |
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9781439909393 (alkaline paper) |
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1439909393 (alkaline paper) |
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9781439909409 |
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1439909407 |
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