Atlanta Unbound - Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning

Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Temple University Press.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1   Introduction: An Intentional Region?

2   Building the Atlanta Regional Commission

3   The River and the Region: The Chattahoochee River and the Atlanta Regional Commission

4   Projecting Sprawl? The 1976 Regional Development Plan of Metropolitan Atlanta

5   Growth Management Comes to Georgia

6   Atlanta’s Transportation Crisis and the Battle of the Northern Arc

7  A Regional Story

Notes

Index

About the author

Carlton Wade Basmajian is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University.

Summary

Answers the question: Toward what end and for whom is Atlanta's regional planning process working?

Product details

• Authors: Carlton Wade Basmajian
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2013
• EAN: 9781439909409
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0940-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, Regionalstudien