Peter Muller Books et al.: Urban Policy: Learning from the Past to Forge a Future: Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Peter Dreier (Eds.) Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN, 2004 423 pp. Science, 308, 22 April 2005, 499-500.
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"The basic premise of this collection of studies is that suburban sprawl, intrametropolitan segregation, and urban poverty are connected and that they have been far more heavily shaped by government decisions than by the workings of market forces responding to consumer preferences. Sprawl, therefore, should not be regarded as an accident of public choice: it is mostly the intentional creation of deeply entrenched public policy, a condition that the authors argue can be redirected to produce more efficient and equitable urban spatial patterns. . . .
". . . new regionalism . . . and urban sustainability . . .
"It is often said that wherever urban America is headed, Los Angeles is likely to get there first . . .