Social Impacts of Urban Containment

Professor Arthur C. Nelson, Assistant Professor Casey J. Dawkins and Associate Professor Thomas Sanchez all at the School for Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Overview of urban containment; Containment typologies; Urban containment in practice; Urban containment and exurban sprawl; Urban containment and gentrification;Urban containment and mandatory housing influences on racial segregation in US metropolitan areas 1990-2000; Urban containment, housing prices and affordable housing supply; Urban containment and metropolitan economic development; Urban containment and central city revitalization; Urban containment and public health (with Sophie Cantell Lambert); Urban containment and neighborhood quality (with Karen Danielsen); The emerging challenge; References and selected bibliography; Index.

'Nelson, Dawkins and Sanchez extend the exploration of the effects of containment beyond urban form and housing prices, providing new insights into its consequences for a broad array of social and economic issues. As such, the authors break new ground to provide the most comprehensive assessment of the thinking on these issues to date.' Gerrit Knaap, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, USA 'This important new book examines the effects of urban containment policies on key social issues in the United States and argues that, while the policies make important contributions to environmental sustainability, they also impact on critical social aspects of contemporary urban living.' Australian Planner