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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1, FOUNDATIONS OF DEBATE OVER LAND USE IN AMERICA
- Property Rights and Responsibilities
- Our Economic Model
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- Gross Domestic Product, Eco-efficiency, Genuine
Progress Indicator, and Nature's Inherent Services
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- Gross Domestic Product
- Eco-efficiency
- Genuine Progress Indicators
- Nature's Inherent Services
- Our Economic Model and Planning
- Human Migratory Patterns
- Human Nature
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CHAPTER 2, ATTEMPTS TO MODIFY CONVENTIONAL LAND-USE PRACTICES
- Zoning
- New Urbanism
- Traditional Neighborhood Development
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CHAPTER 3, PROTECTING DIVERSITY THROUGH LAND-USE PLANNING
- Composition, Structure, and Function of Habitat
- The Effect of Modifying Habitat
- Cumulative Effects, Thresholds, and Lag Periods
- Constraints: The Building Blocks of Sustainable Planning
- Open Space
- Transportation
- Population
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CHAPTER 4, MODELING THE PLANNING PROCESS AFTER NATURE
- Fluidity
- Bioengineering versus Natural Processes
- Listening, Really Listening, to the Citizens
- Or only Pretending to Really Listen
- Eliminating Unwelcome Voices Within
- Non-linearity
Diversity and Self-organization
Eliminating the Concept of "Waste"
Interdependency
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CHAPTER 5, AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO COMPREHENSIVELAND USE PLANNING
- Land-use Planning and the Notion of Supply and Demand
- How Does the Three-Part Environmental-Economic Model Guide the Way We Alter Landscapes to Meet Our Perceived Necessities?
- What do We Mean by Human Necessities?
- Understanding "Demand" in Terms of a More Complex Array of Perceived Human Necessities Will Help Us Find Alternative Ways to Deliver the Desired Services
- Structural Components of the Comprehensive Plan
- Overall Structure
- The Role of Values
- Elements of the Comprehensive Plan
- Developing a Comprehensive Plan
- Setting the Stage for Planning
- Step 1: Mining for Meaning--Obtaining Community Values
- Step 2: Creating a Community Vision
- Step 3: Sample Comprehensive Plan Element
- Sample Comprehensive Plan Elements: Transportation
- Composition and Structures
- Functions
- Services
- Current Status and Analysis of Structures, Functions, and Services
- Critical Issues Yield Goals, Objectives, and Policies
- Checklist to Evaluate Goals, Objectives, and Policies
- Sample Comprehensive Plan Elements: Land Use
- Community Structures
- Functions and Services
- Checklist
- Sample Comprehensive Plan Elements: Community Facilities and Services
- Sample Comprehensive Plan Elements: Cultural Resources
- Sample Comprehensive Plan Elements: Economic Development
- Paradigm Warning
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CHAPTER 6, IMPLEMENTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Zoning Ordinances
- Zoning Ordinances and Greed
- Content of the Zoning Ordinance Preface
- Redesigning Zoning Ordinances
- Other Regulatory Approaches to Land-use Control
- Preservation of Farmlands
- Population Growth Rate and New Construction
- Preventing Traffic Congestion
- Non-regulatory Methods of Controlling Land Use
- Incentive-Based Tools
- Incentives Themselves
- Development Review
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Citizen-initiated development review
Obstacles to development review
- Fiscal Impact Analysis
Environmental Impact Analysis
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Checklists for sustainability
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CHAPTER 7, MONITORING PROGRESS
- Change and Our Perception of It
- Creating Measures of Progress
- Outputs vs. Outcomes
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CHAPTER 8, KEEPING THE MESSAGE ALIVE THE MESSAGE
- At what Scale is Planning most Effective?
- Is a "Paradigm Shift" occurring?
- Barriers to Overcome
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Endorsements:
Referenced in the "Kerala [India] Land Use Bill, 2002."
"This book should be read, studied, and then used by all local planners and planning boards. Clearly and interestingly written, it belongs not only in academic libraries but, more importantly, in all public libraries, where it will be accessible to interested citizens."
R. L. Smith
Choice Magazine Vol. 38, No. 7 (March 2001)
"Silberstein and Maser have written a must-read book for anyone interested in local community planning with a definite sustainability twist. I read it for a paper on sustainable participation and found it to be quite easy to read; plenty of case examples and thought-provoking ideas make sure of that. I especially liked reading about the everyday problems that are so common in community planning, it makes it easy to relate to."
A review from Sweden
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"LAND-USE PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Jane Silberstein, Chris Maser. The first book to incorporate land-use planning with sustainability. Reviews the foundations of current land use practices from historical, constitutional, economic, ecological, and societal perspectives. Analyzes the results of these practices and suggests alternative methods for guiding and controlling the ways in which we modify the landscape. Readers will discover an array of ideas for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land."
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