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Perverse cities : hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl / Pamela Blais.
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Blais, Pamela.

Title & Author:

Perverse cities : hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl / Pamela Blais.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.

Description:

xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-269) and index.
The price of sprawl -- Sprawl: a planning problem -- The costs and benefits of sprawl -- The costs and benefits of planning -- How do our cities grow? Plans versus reality -- Prices drive sprawl -- Municipal services: costs and prices -- Network services: costs and prices -- Housing, infrastructure, and energy: more mis-pricing and mis-incentives -- Driving sprawl: pricing and policy mis-incentives -- Principles for a market-oriented approach -- A toolbox of market-oriented instruments -- Perverse subsidies, perverse cities.
Summary:

"Urban sprawl - low-density subdivisions and business parks, big box stores and mega-malls - has increasingly come to define city growth despite decades of planning and policy. In Perverse Cities, Pamela Blais argues that flawed public policies and mis-pricing create hidden, "perverse" subsidies and incentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient and sustainable urban forms - clearly not what most planners and environmentalists have in mind. She makes the case for accurate pricing and better policy to curb sprawl and shows how this can be achieved in practice through a range of market-oriented tools that promote efficient, sustainable cities."--Publisher description.

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Table of contents
ISBN:

9780774818964 (pbk.)
0774818964 (pbk.)
9780774818957 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0774818956 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780774818971
0774818972
9780774818988
0774818980

Subject:

City planning Economic aspects.
Cities and towns Growth Economic aspects.
Urban form Canada Economic aspects.
Urban sprawl Canada.
Urbanisme Aspect économique.
Villes Croissance Aspect économique.
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Stadtwirtschaft
Verstädterung
Städtebau.
Stadtökonomie.

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Statistics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275038
Call No.: BIB 209030
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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