Blais, Pamela. <br/><br/>
Perverse cities :  hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl / 
Pamela Blais. 
 - Vancouver :  UBC Press,  c2010. 
 - xii, 278 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-269) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780774818964 (pbk) 9780774818957 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>B-035629 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011411081 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>20109047788 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>City planning--Economic aspects.<br/>Cities and towns--Growth--Economic aspects.<br/>Urbanisme--Aspect �economique.<br/>Villes--Croissance--Aspect �economique.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT166.  / .B53 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.1/216