Regulation for Revenue

Alan A. Altshuler is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and its Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts, USA. He is also director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government. JosU A. G���mez-Ib ���ez , professor of public policy and urban planning at Harvard University, USA, is coauthor of Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization (Brookings, 1994). Arnold M. Howitt is associate director of the Taubman Center.

"This is a timely book on an important topic. It sheds new light on why development charges are spreading so quickly and finds good reasons to question their results. By bringing together political and economic perspectives, the authors have made a fresh contribution to the debate about growth-controls that is sure to interest public officials, citizen activists, and people who care about the future of cities and suburbs." —Bernard J. Frieden,, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology|"A concise encyclopedia of recent urban trends and of the revolutionary fiscal and programmatic responses to them. Their book is written with such precision and sheer savvy that it's sure to become the standing authority in the field." —Melvin Webber, University of California, Berkley|"This is an important and timely book; the authors have done a superb job of describing and analyzing the emerging roleof exactions in land use planning and regulation. A highly readable book that sould be required reading for planners, real estate developers, and public officials. first-rate scholarship." —Mitchell L. Moss, New York University|"The book provides the first clear comprehensive analysis of the impact of exactions on development and on crucial public policy issues affecting the distribution of revenue and people in metropolitan areas. The book is first rate, a 'must read' for students of public policy-which should mean all concerned Americans. -" —Marshall Kaplan, University of Colorado