THE SOCIAL COSTS OF SPRAWL

This article will identify political, institutional, and social factors that have contributed to the continuing, outward urban to suburban/rural exodus, referred to as suburbanization or urban sprawl. Sprawl has engendered six major crises for America's major metropolitan regions: 1) central city and first- and second-ring suburban decline; 2) environmental degradation through loss of wetlands, sensitive lands, and air and water quality degradation; 3) massive gasoline energy overutilization; 4) fiscal insolvency, infrastructure deficiencies, and taxpayer revolts; 5) devastating agricultural land conversion; and 6) housing inaffordability.

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• Authors:
  • Freilich, R H
  • Peshoff, B G
• Publication Date: 1997-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 183-198
• Serial:
  • Urban Lawyer
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Bar Association
  • ISSN: 0042-0905

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Externalities; Infrastructure; Land use; Political factors; Social impacts; Socioeconomic development; Urban sprawl
• Old TRIS Terms: Community consequences
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00737770
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 25 1997 12:00AM