Blais, Pamela.
Perverse cities : hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl / Pamela Blais. - Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010. - xii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
9780774818964 (pbk) 9780774818957 (hbk. : alk. paper)
B-035629
2011411081
20109047788
City planning--Economic aspects.
Cities and towns--Growth--Economic aspects.
Urbanisme--Aspect �economique.
Villes--Croissance--Aspect �economique.
HT166. / .B53 2010
307.1/216
Perverse cities : hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl / Pamela Blais. - Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010. - xii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
9780774818964 (pbk) 9780774818957 (hbk. : alk. paper)
B-035629
2011411081
20109047788
City planning--Economic aspects.
Cities and towns--Growth--Economic aspects.
Urbanisme--Aspect �economique.
Villes--Croissance--Aspect �economique.
HT166. / .B53 2010
307.1/216