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New
Urban Development
Price (cloth): $42.95
Price (paper): $27.95
Subtitle: Looking
Back to See Forward
Author:
Claude Gruen
Subject: Public
Policy
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4793-0
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5419-8
Pages:
234 pages, 4 tables, 5
graphs
Publication Date: September 2010
20%
Discount Offer
Events:
Chicago, Great Cities Institute: October 1,
2:00 p.m. 412 South Peoria.
Rutgers University: Tuesday, October 5,
4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, 33
Livingston Ave., Room 369.
Washington DC ULI Conference: Thursday,
October 14, 1:30 -- 2:15 p.m., Speed Learning Theater, Expo Hall.
Praise:
"In New
Urban Development, Claude Gruen has delivered an authoritative
review of the failures of poorly-designed land-use regulation and how
it distorts housing. He captures in a persuasive fashion the good
versus bad regulation that drives development, providing a valuable
contribution to our understanding of smart urban policy."—Asieh Mansour, RREEF
"Claude Gruen weaves his first hand experiences into a highly readable
account of how and why America's cities have evolved throughout this
century. His thirteen prescriptions for fixing America's urban ills are
a must read for policy makers and lay readers alike."—Richard Peiser, Harvard
University
"Only someone with Claude's thoughtful history could put this together.
A fascinating walk through our development past that ends with very
practical,
how-to suggestions for a rational urban development policy going
forward."—Peter
Rummell, Retired Chairman & CEO, The St. Joe Company
Description:
The recent recession
is one result of how local planning laws and practices have stifled
competition, discouraged innovation, and artificially pushed up prices
in America’s most economically vibrant regions. Economist and
consultant Claude Gruen unravels the story behind how these unintended
consequences have resulted from the evolution of local zoning, growth
controls, and laws intended to increase housing affordability.
New Urban
Development traces how locally induced housing cost increases
led federal policy-makers to toss out the safeguards against lending
excesses that had been put in place during the 1930s. But the story
begins much earlier, during the colonial era, continuing up through the
mortgage collapse that ushered in the recession of 2008. In his
sweeping history of these issues, Gruen considers gentrification,
environmentalism, sprawl, anti-sprawl movements, and more. His
clarification of how urban development change occurs backs up his
recommendations for increasing the production of housing and replacing
obsolete commercial and industrial spaces with development that serves
the twenty-first-century economy. New
Urban Development specifies thirteen changes to policies at the
federal, state, and local levels to provide better and less expensive
urban housing, desirable neighborhoods, and thriving workplaces across
the country.
About the Author:
Claude Gruen,
principal economist of Gruen Gruen + Associates, has published
extensively on urban economics and land use policy.
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