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Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl

The Case for Market Urbanism

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Authors:
  1. Michael Lewyn

    1. Touro College , New York, USA

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  • Makes a significant contribution to the literature on suburban and urban sprawl

  • Useful as a supplementary text in both law and planning courses dealing with the use of land

  • Shows how government-funded highways lead to suburbanization

  • Shows how density restrictions, parking regulations, and other land use rules make suburbia less walkable

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. What Is Sprawl And Why Should We Care About It?

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 1-23

  3. Sprawl As Where We Grow: Or, How Government Spreads Suburbia

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 25-68

  4. Sprawl As Where We Grow, Part 2: How Government Prices Americans Out Of Cities

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 69-93

  5. Sprawl As How We Grow, Or How Government Makes Suburbia Sprawling

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 95-128

  6. Making Walking A Crime

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 129-147

  7. Market Urbanism: Pro-Market Solutions To Anti-Market Sprawl

    • Michael Lewyn
    Pages 149-151

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 153-174
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About this book

This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. 


Thus, the book responds to the widely held view that automobile-dependent suburban development (also known as “suburban sprawl”) is a natural result of the free market and of affluence, and accordingly cannot be altered without massive government regulation.  


Authors and Affiliations

  • Touro College , New York, USA

    Michael Lewyn

About the author

Michael Lewyn is Associate Professor at Touro Law Center in Central Islip, New York, USA, where he teaches property, land use, environmental law and other courses. He has published over four dozen scholarly articles, and blogs regularly at planetizen.com and marketurbanism.com. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl

  • Book Subtitle: The Case for Market Urbanism

  • Authors: Michael Lewyn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95149-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95148-2Published: 29 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95743-9Published: 12 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95149-9Published: 20 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 174

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

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