RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is also Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute, a Tallahassee-based think tank specializing in issues facing state governments. The author of eight books, his primary areas of research are public finance and economic analysis of policy issues.SAMUEL R. STALEY is Director of the Urban Futures Program at Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, A Line in the Land: Urban-Growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability, The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda.

• Preface Land-use Planning and Markets; An Overview of the Issues by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley An Overview of U.S. Urbanization and Land Use Trends by Samuel R. Staley The Geography of Transportation and Land Use by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson Congestion and Traffic Management by Robert W. Poole, Jr. Air Quality, Density, and Environmental Degradation by Kenneth Green National Land Use Planning through Environmental Policy by Jefferson G. Edgens Regionalism and the Growth-Management Movement by Gerard C.S. Mildner Growth Management in Action: The Case of Florida by Randall G. Holcombe Urban Density and Sprawl:An Historic Perspective by Robert Bruegmann Property Rights in a Complex World by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Infrastructure Planning in Market-Oriented Framework by Wendell Cox Fixing the Dysfunctional Central City by Steven Hayward Policy Implications by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley References Index

RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is also Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute, a Tallahassee-based think tank specializing in issues facing state governments. The author of eight books, his primary areas of research are public finance and economic analysis of policy issues.SAMUEL R. STALEY is Director of the Urban Futures Program at Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, A Line in the Land: Urban-Growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability, The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda.

• Preface Land-use Planning and Markets; An Overview of the Issues by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley An Overview of U.S. Urbanization and Land Use Trends by Samuel R. Staley The Geography of Transportation and Land Use by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson Congestion and Traffic Management by Robert W. Poole, Jr. Air Quality, Density, and Environmental Degradation by Kenneth Green National Land Use Planning through Environmental Policy by Jefferson G. Edgens Regionalism and the Growth-Management Movement by Gerard C.S. Mildner Growth Management in Action: The Case of Florida by Randall G. Holcombe Urban Density and Sprawl:An Historic Perspective by Robert Bruegmann Property Rights in a Complex World by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Infrastructure Planning in Market-Oriented Framework by Wendell Cox Fixing the Dysfunctional Central City by Steven Hayward Policy Implications by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley References Index

RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is also Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute, a Tallahassee-based think tank specializing in issues facing state governments. The author of eight books, his primary areas of research are public finance and economic analysis of policy issues.SAMUEL R. STALEY is Director of the Urban Futures Program at Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, A Line in the Land: Urban-Growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability, The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda.

• Preface Land-use Planning and Markets; An Overview of the Issues by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley An Overview of U.S. Urbanization and Land Use Trends by Samuel R. Staley The Geography of Transportation and Land Use by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson Congestion and Traffic Management by Robert W. Poole, Jr. Air Quality, Density, and Environmental Degradation by Kenneth Green National Land Use Planning through Environmental Policy by Jefferson G. Edgens Regionalism and the Growth-Management Movement by Gerard C.S. Mildner Growth Management in Action: The Case of Florida by Randall G. Holcombe Urban Density and Sprawl:An Historic Perspective by Robert Bruegmann Property Rights in a Complex World by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Infrastructure Planning in Market-Oriented Framework by Wendell Cox Fixing the Dysfunctional Central City by Steven Hayward Policy Implications by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley References Index