Title: BUILDING THE FUTURE AS A PROCESS IN TIME. IN: METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS. 2000 ANNUAL ROUNDTABLE
Abstract: As the 1990s give way to a new century, the nature of future urban development in California and much of the United States is the subject of intense debate. Nationwide there is heightened interest in the ideas of compact development, smart growth and sustainability, all of which question the wisdom of continuing to produce the type of suburban sprawl that characterizes much of today's environment. Defenders of sprawl have countered with arguments about consumer preferences, greater transportation accessibility and affordable housing. Adding urgency to the debate in California is the consensus that the state will have 15 million additional residents between 1990 and 2020, which is a 50 percent population increase. This current round of growth is fueling the need for new development that could substantially remake the state's urban form. Whether this new growth results in more compact cities or in continued sprawl, the central tension within the development debate will be between meeting the demands of population growth over time and satisfying residents' desire to control development patterns. Remarkably, the time dimensions of urban development have been neglected in recent debates over development patterns. Instead, the debate has been cast primarily in terms of spatial patterns or as a matter of the political values behind opposing outlooks.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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