Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl : The Case for Market Urbanism

• Main Author: Lewyn, Michael. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Urban geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781349951499
• Physical Description: XV, 174 p. online resource.

This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view that automobile-dependent suburban development (als...