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The "smart growth" movement has had a significant influence on land use regulation over the past few decades, and promises to offer the antidote to suburban sprawl. But states and local governments that once enthusiastically touted smart growth legislation are beginning to confront unforeseen obstacles and unintended consequences resulting from their new policies. This Article explores the impact of growth management acts on private property rights, noting the inevitable and growing conflicts between the two sides that legislatures and courts are now being asked to sort out. It assesses the problems with creating truly intelligent urban growth, ranging from political motivations to inconsistent judicial determinations to NIMBYs to constitutional takings jurisprudence. This Article predicts dramatically increased land use litigation as the likely result of smart growth legislation in the coming decades unless legislatures and courts enact sensible reforms today. If we want "smart growth" to live up to its name, we must remove it from local politics, get serious about consistently enforcing urban growth boundaries or priority funding areas, and even consider reforming America's individualistic notion of private property rights as we know it.

Relatively low and volatile agricultural commodity prices have placed increasing pressure on the state's farm sector in the 1990s. At the same time, an unusually robust non-farm economy has generated significant demand for rural housing and recreational land development. The result has been a dramatic acceleration in the rate of farmland conversion to non- farm uses over the last 15 years. Non-farm growth pressures have affected many other aspects of Wisconsin's urban and rural landscape as well. To help communities grapple with these new challenges, the state legislature passed a new "Smart Growth" law in the fall of 1999 (1999 Wisconsin Act 9). This law encourages municipalities to write and use new "comprehensive plans" to guide all their land use decisions by January 1, 2010. Under the statute, one required element of comprehensive plans will be an assessment of agricultural resources and a plan for their future use or protection. This article assesses the significance of the new Smart Growth legislation for agriculture in Wisconsin. I begin with an overview of trends in farmland loss in the state. Because agricultural planning had a long history in the state even before the Smart Growth law, I examine some of the political and economic challenges of writing and implementing effective land use plans in rural communities. I conclude with a detailed consideration of what the Smart Growth law will require concerning agriculture, and explore some of the ways in which it could impact farms, the general agribusiness economy, land markets, and rural communities in Wisconsin.

AbstractMany local governments are implementing public processes in conjunction with new "Smart Growth" land use patterns that focus on
increasing
housing choices, encouraging compact new development and redevelopment in older areas, preserving environmentally sensitive lands and open space,
creating a unique sense of community, and providing more transportation options. This article examines nine Minnesota projects that used consensus
building processes and offers general strategies for designing and implementing future processes.

What is suburbia? : naming the layers in the landscape, 1820-2000 / Dolores Hayden -- How they lost their way in San Jose : the capital of Silicon Valley as a case study of postwar sprawl / Glenna Matthews -- Electronic cottages, wired neighborhoods, and smart cities / William J. Mitchell -- How do we know smart growth when we see it? / Arthur C. Nelson -- Seven wise (though possibly impractical) goals for smart growth advocates / Alex Krieger -- Smarter standards and regulations : diversifying the spatial paradigm of subdivisions / Eran Ben-Joseph -- Smart growth : legal assumptions and market realities / Brian W. Blaesser -- The Constitution neither prohibits nor requires smart growth / Jerold S. Kayden -- Ethical principles for smart growth : steps toward an ecological ten commandments / Timothy C. Weiskel -- Smart growth and urban revival / Harvey Gantt

Current trends in stormwater management add pollution control to existing priorities of flood protection and peakflow limits. From a fundamental overview of supporting information on water quality, statistics and hydrology to detailed sections devoted to treatment and management practices, this book examines the latest treatment practices and techniques for improving stormwater quality to protect against stream, river and estuary degradation.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Markets, Governments, and Smart Growth -- Catallactics, Knowledge, and Entrepreneurs -- Urban Political Economy -- Green Building Studies -- Smart Growth Entrepreneurs -- Research Design -- The Plan of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Sprawl and Smart Growth -- Real Estate and the State -- Sprawling into the Future -- Smart Growth and the New Urbanism -- Smart Growth Versus Sprawl -- Smart Regulations and Ecological Modernization -- Promoting New Urbanist Development and Identifying the Obstacles to Smart Growth -- Parking and Urban Form -- Sustainable Construction Costs -- Mixed-Use and Financing -- Community Participation and the Permit Review Process -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Managing Urban Growth in Oregon and California -- Managing Urban Growth in the El Dorado State -- Megapolitan SoCal -- Growth Management in the Golden State -- California Zoning -- The General Plan -- Tax Revolt and Fiscal Crises -- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) -- Exactions and Impact Fees -- Development Caps -- California Cities and Growth Controls -- San Luis Obispo -- Santa Maria -- Santa Barbara -- Ventura -- Oxnard -- Camarillo -- Thousand Oaks -- Oregon Urban Growth and Management -- History -- Senate Bill 10 -- Senate Bill 100 -- Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) -- Portland -- Portland Development Commission (PDC) -- The Portland Metro -- The Portland Metro TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) Program -- Oregon Cities and Growth Controls -- Beaverton -- Lake Oswego -- Milwaukie -- Gresham -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Smart Growth Machine: Coalitions of Entrepreneurs -- The Entrepreneurial State, Innovators, and Market Formation -- The Entrepreneurial State in Santa Barbara and Ventura

International audience ; En 2050, la population états-unienne devrait atteindre les 420 millions d'habitants et trois quarts des néo-urbains devront vivre dans des nouveaux logements localisés dans les banlieues, en particulier du sud et de l'ouest des Etats-Unis. Pensez à un terrain de football et imaginez que vous puissiez le dupliquer à chaque clignement d'oeil et faites le toutes les secondes pendant 24h, pendant 3 ans: c'est à peu près le foncier que les Etats-Unis vont devoir consommer pour assumer ce développement résidentiel et toutes les fonctions (emplois, infrastructures de transports, services…) connexes (Flint, 2006) 1. Cette problématique n'est pas nouvelle dans un pays qui a triplé ses surfaces urbanisées depuis 1950. La suburbanisation, un temps, antre socio-spatial de l'American Way of Life a sombré dans un étalement urbain (urban sprawl) presque unanimement dénoncés et combattus activement par beaucoup de gouvernements locaux. Certains praticiens et élus locaux, loin de s'abandonner à la seule complainte d'un discours dénonciateur, organisent la contre offensive urbaine. Ainsi, l'idée générale de l'instauration d'une croissance maîtrisée ou intelligente (smart growth) semble de plus en plus populaire aux Etats-Unis. Les principes de ce nouvel urbanisme sont assez simples sur le papier : construire de manière plus compacte, avec plus de multifonctionnalité (rapprocher logements/emplois/commerces) et une meilleure connectivité aux systèmes de transport de masse. En 1997, l'Etat du Maryland (Smart Growth Areas Act) avait été le premier à montrer la voie, sous l'impulsion d'un gouverneur pionnier Parris Glendening 2. En 2008, environ 550 décrets avaient été mis au vote par les gouvernements locaux (State et Municipalités) dans 38 Etats : 70 % ont été adoptés par le public. En dépit d'un apparent soutien populaire et de bon nombre de praticiens, universitaires et hommes politiques, l'aménagement de zones résidentielles plus intégrées et denses peine encore à se généraliser. Dans certains cas, malgré ...