This seems the right opportunity to plug a book I just read. It's available from Madison Public Library (you can ask them to hold it for you at your local branch: visit http://linkcat.scls.lib.wi.us/linkcatweb/link.html and follow the prompts).
_ HOW CITIES WORK_ by Alex Marshall http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/marhow.html The author's thesis is transportation decisions fuel economic growth in general, so transportation trumps zoning and planning in shaping modern cities. He addresses how modern cities exist around "traffic sheds," just as most cities before the industrial revolution where defined by the waterways underlying economic growth. Plain (if sometimes repetitive) language, extensive meditations on "good" vs. "bad" sprawl, why suburbs are not inherently evil, etc. Author bases his analysis on original reporting and lots of research, and provides a very detailed bibliography. Worthh a look! --- at 1:59 PM 2002/10/08, Darin Burleigh wrote --- >At 12:47 PM -0500 10/8/02, Joseph King wrote: >>Mitch points out two conditions under which this might be the case. >> A. Land use controls in place >> B. Limited number of interchanges >> >>Should we require adopted land use plans before any new highway >>construction? > >This has been my position (with regard to the north beltline project) >since I started going to the NMPAC meetings, and goes to the heart >of the argument - land use should drive transportation policy, not >the other way around. -- Jesse the K -- Madison, WI USA -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -[ Kindly forgive asynchrony; I read via digest ]- _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
