GROWTH AS DESTINY: UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIA'S POSTWAR GROWTH PATTERNS AND TRENDS. IN: METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS. 2000 ANNUAL ROUNDTABLE
This paper describes how California is a state of such size and fluidity that it resists attempts at description. Its story is especially important because to some degree it is the twentieth-century story of the United States. All of the following trends happened first in California, and then spread eastward across the country: (1) the relentless expansion of California's cities and suburbs; the postwar rise of its manufacturing economy; the snake-like extension of its freeways; the rise of Reaganism and the anti-tax movement; the worldwide cultural standardization emanating out of Southern California; the PC and Internet revolutions and the rise of Silicon Valley and; most recently; the rise of a non-majority, multi-cultural society. This paper seeks to spotlight the forces and forms of California's growth by reviewing the magnitude of California's population and economic growth, along with its changing composition. Taking advantage of new digital data and analytical techniques not available in the 1990s, the paper examines intra-county spatial patterns of growth and seeks to understand the relationships between market forces and public policy in shaping those patterns.
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Corporate Authors:
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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Authors:
- Landis, J D
- Publication Date: 2000
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 10 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cities; Expansion; Freeways; Political factors; Population growth; Suburbs; Urban development; Urban growth; Urban sprawl
- Geographic Terms: California
- Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00931029
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 1558441433
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 4 2002 12:00AM