Title: EQUITY AND THE FUTURE POLITICS OF GROWTH. IN: URBAN SPRAWL: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES
Abstract: This chapter discusses the future of the current wave of metropolitan reform, which emphasizes collective decision making between cities and their surrounding jurisdictions. The metropolitan reformers link rational-planning themes to other issues such as environmentalism and equity, to build a case that suburban and rural residents may share a common cause with central cities. This redefines the problems of urban sprawl to expand the constituency for change. Potential steps that might be responsive to the problems of sprawl, focusing on the equity issues associated with uneven development, are discussed. It is suggested that one promising tactic may be to shift from directly challenging existing institutions to finding ways to exploit and redirect the power of institutions to define interests. This could include using the authoritative power of higher levels of government to mandate or systematically encourage local reforms, using the authoritative power of the judicial system, shifting authority over certain kinds of decisions to existing units of government that operate on a metropolitan or state scale, and creating new institutions initially have minor consequences and are politically unobjectionable but that are designed to develop into more substantial enterprises over time.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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