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Informationen zum Autor Marion Clawson Klappentext This comprehensive study of land use on the suburban fringe analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States. It contains a detailed examination of the northwestern urban complex; some nationwide projections for the future; and a list of measures that, singularly or together, may change the nature and results of the suburban land conversion process.Originally published in 1971 Zusammenfassung A study of land use on the suburban fringe that analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States. It contains an examination of the northwestern urban complex; some nationwide projections for the future; and a list of measures may change the nature and results of the suburban land conversion process. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Scope, Focus, and Design of the Book; I: Forces, Processes, Actors; 2: Some Measures of Urbanization; 3: Postwar Urbanization in the United States; 4: The Nature of the Urban Impact on the Rural Countryside; 5: The Decision-Making Process in Urban Expansion; 6: The Chief Actors in Urban Expansion; 7: The Suburban Land Market; 8: Public Services for Suburban Areas; 9: Externalities and Interdependencies in Urban Land Uses and Values; II: The Northeastern Urban Complex in the United States; 10: An Overview of the Complex; 11: Land Use in Three Study Areas of the Northeastern Urban Complex; 12: Decision Making in Suburbanization of the Three Study Areas; 13: A Glance at Other Metropolitan Areas in the Northeastern Urban Complex; 14: The Emerging Regional Urban Complex; III: Possibilities for the Future; 15: A Summary Appraisal of Suburban Land Conversion; 16: Another Generation of the Present Suburbanization Process; 17: Alternatives for Planned Modification of the Suburban Land Conversion Process
