Growth Management in Florida

Planning for Paradise

Growth Management in Florida
  • Imprint: Ashgate
  • Published: August 2007
  • Format: 234 x 156 mm
  • Extent: 338 pages
  • Binding: Hardback
  • ISBN: 978-0-7546-4852-9
  • Price :  $124.95 » Website price: $112.46
  • BL Reference: 307.1'2'09759
  • LoC Control No: 2007007954
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  • Edited by Timothy S. Chapin, Florida State University, USA, Charles E. Connerly, Florida State University, USA and Harrison T. Higgins, Florida State University, USA
  • Series : Urban Planning and Environment

  • Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received only piecemeal attention from researchers. Drawing together contributions from national experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume assesses the outcomes of Florida’s approach for managing growth. As Florida’s approach is the most detailed system for managing growth in the United States, this book will be of great value to planners. The strengths and weaknesses of the state’s approach are identified, providing insights into how to manage land use change in a state continuously inundated by growth. In evaluating the successes and failures of the Florida approach, planners and policy makers will gain insights into how to successfully implement growth management policies at both the state and local level.

  • Contents: Introduction, Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly and Harrison T. Higgins. Part I The Foundations of Growth Management in Florida: A historical perspective for evaluating Florida's evolving growth management process, Thomas G. Pelham; Consistency, concurrency and compact development: 3 faces of growth management implementation in Florida, Efraim Ben-Zadok; The fiscal theory and reality of growth management in Florida, James C. Nicholas and Timothy S. Chapin; Attitudes towards growth management in Florida: comparing resident support in 1985 and 2001, Timothy S. Chapin and Charles E. Connerly. Part II Evaluating Growth Management's Outcomes: Growth and change Florida style: 1970 to 2000, Thomas W. Sanchez and Robert H. Mandle; Growth management and the spatial outcome of regional development in Florida, 1982–1997, John I. Carruthers, Marlon G. Boarnet and Ralph B. McLaughlin; Growth management or growth unabated?: economic development in Florida since 1990, Timothy S. Chapin; Compact urban form or business as usual?: an examination of urban form in Orange County, Florida, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Yan Song; The spillover effects of growth management: constraints on new housing construction, Yan Song; Are we any safer?: an evaluation of Florida's hurricane hazard mitigation planning mandates, Robert E. Deyle, Timothy S. Chapin and Earl J. Baker; Urban containment and neighborhood quality in Florida, Arthur C. Nelson, Casey J. Dawkins, Thomas W. Sanchez and Karen A. Danielsen. Part III Innovations and Limitations of the Florida Growth Management Experience: Transportation concurrency: an idea before its time?, Ruth L. Steiner; Why do Florida counties adopt urban growth boundaries?, Randall G. Holcombe; Paying for the 'priceless': Florida forever, managing growth, and public land acquisition, Harrison T. Higgins and Neil B. Paradise; Affordable housing in Florida: why haven't Florida's growth management laws met the challenge of adequately housing all its citizens?, Charles E. Connerly; Documenting the rise of impact fees in Florida, Gregory S. Burge and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt. Part IV Conclusion: The 1985 Florida GMA: Satan or Savior?, Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, Harrison T. Higgins; Index.

  • About the Editor: Timothy S. Chapin is Associate Professor, Charles E. Connerly is William G. and Budd Bell Professor, and Harrison T. Higgins is Research Associate and Planner in Residence, all at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, USA.

  • Reviews: 'This volume will interest observers of urban and regional change, planning, and politics the world over; many of the book's well-written and -selected chapters are among the most useful I've read, whether about Florida or other settings. Anyone interested in sprawl, affordable housing, impact fees, transportation, open space, or planning implementation will find something useful – even essential – here.'
    Rolf Pendall, Cornell University, USA

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    Timothy S. Chapin has a profile page on the Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Florida State University website.


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