Understanding Which Policies Promote Sprawl

A speech by Bruce Katz of the Brookings institute presents the major trends affecting cities and metropolitan areas, the forces driving these trends, and the policy solutions available to affect positive change.

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April 6, 2004, 10:00 AM PDT

By Zvi Leve


This presentation given by Bruce Katz to the Land Use Coalition at Yale (LUCY) focuses on regional scale land use and transportation planning policies. This engagement was part of a spring semester speaker series sponsored by LUCY on various topics involving land use, regionalism and transportation planning, community design and smart growth, and the impacts of development at the rural/urban interface on protected areas and agriculture. [Editor's note: this page contains a link to the full speech in PDF format (1720 KB)]

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Monday, April 5, 2004 in The Brookings Institution

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