Carlton Wade Basmajian: Atlanta Unbound

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How metropolitan Atlanta's regional planning groups accelerated the sprawl they were trying to control<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909393&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Atlanta Unbound</h1> <H2>Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning</H2> <h3>Carlton Wade Basmajian</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0939-3 $74.50, Sep 13, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-0941-5 $29.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT> <BR> 274 pp 7x10 8 figures 24 halftones 24 color illustrations </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Interesting and innovative, </I>Atlanta Unbound<I> will have a strong impact on the field of planning, urban history, and urban politics. Basmajian’s claim that ‘progressive’ institutions like regional planning are empty shells until activated by community/political will needs to be recognized. He also effectively shows how such entities exercise substantial power through their role as quiet intermediaries and their claims to professional expertise."</I><br>&#151<b>Carl Abbott</b>, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Looking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city’s notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning—particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In <I>Atlanta Unbound</I>, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta’s low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned. <P>Basmajian’s shrewd analysis shows how regional policies spanned political boundaries and framed local debates over several decades. He examines the role of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s planning deliberations that appear to have contributed to the urban sprawl that they were designed to control. Basmajian explores four cases—regional land development plans, water supply strategies, growth management policies, and transportation infrastructure programs—to provide a detailed account of the interactions between citizens, planners, regional commissions, state government, and federal agencies. <P>In the process, <I>Atlanta Unbound</I> answers the question: Toward what end and for whom is Atlanta’s regional planning process working? <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"Building on the classic University of Chicago studies of planning in its political context, Basmajian’s analyses dissect the relationships between the first publicly funded regional planning agency in the U.S. and development interests, federal policy, state and local politics, a nearly independent state transportation agency, and an evolving but always active business elite. His knowledge of the never-neutral technical intersections of transportation models and the politics of policy choices reveals the undercurrents of often-opaque debates. His familiarity with the institutional history of water resources planning shines welcome light on contemporary policy conflicts. Overall, his analyses are thorough, his interpretations are accurate, and his conclusions are important."</I> <br>&#151<b>Larry Keating</b>, Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning, and author of <I>Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Development</I> (Temple) <BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Carlton Wade Basmajian</b> is Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/urban_life.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy</a></i>, edited by Zane L. 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The editors seek proposals that analyze processes of urban change relevant to the future of cities and their metropolitan regions, and that examine urban and regional planning, environmental issues, and urban policy studies, thus contributing to ongoing debates.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909393&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2013 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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