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The increasing income & expanding leisure proceeding from the continuing growth of productivity in our society are generating a deep-seated cultural transition from the values of work & production toward those associated with consumption & leisure. Recreation policy can be a useful instrument in effecting this transition with a minimum of cultural dislocation, but there is a need to develop more effective frameworks for recreation policy-making. Leisure activity can be viewed as a quasimarket system whose performance results from the interaction of demand & supply factors subject to analysis. When costs are measured in terms of both money & time, & when transportation costs are specified as variables, it becomes possible to construct a model of the space economy of recreation activity which should become an important analytical perspective for the recreation planner in the future. Because the 'openness' of the system in which he plans is growing, he will need to relate his plans to the larger world, where the federal recreation policies can play a valuable role in providing the context for the planning of local recreation activity. AA.

Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963.

1. Objective, subjective, and collective dimensions of the quality of life / Lowdon Wingo -- 2. Variations in the quality of urban life among cities and regions / Irving Hoch -- 3. The urban disamenity revisited / John R. Meyer and Robert A. Leone -- 4. Problems of measuring the quality of city environments / Michael Whitbread -- 5. Local government, the property tax, and the quality of life : some findings on progressivity / Bruce W. Hamilton -- 6. Justifiable government intervention in preserving the quality of life / David W. Pearce -- 7. The quality of life and the limits of cost-benefit analysis / A.J. Culyer -- 8. Property values and the benefits of environmental improvements : theory and measurement / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld -- 9. Estimating access values / Peter Bohm -- 10. Neighborhood externalities, economic clubs, and the environment / Alan Evans -- 11. The treatment of externalities in national income statistics / Mancur Olson -- 12. Conceptions of the quality of life in theory and practice / David Donnison -- 13. Toward a new civic calculus / Edwin T. Haefele -- 14. Measuring the quality of life of the elderly / Alan Williams -- 15. Reflections on the quality of working life / Herbert C. Morton.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- "A Review History of British Regional Policy -- "Notes on a National Urban Development Strategy for the United States: Politics and Analytics" -- "The National System of Cities as an Object of Public Policy" -- "Optimality in City Size, Systems of Cities and Urban Policy: A Sceptics View" -- "The Agglomeration Process in Urban Growth" -- "Welfare Aspects of National Policy Toward City Sizes" -- "The Pure Theory of City Size in an Industrial Economy