Clearly, the nation is poised on the threshold of a land-planning renaissance than can significantly alter the way in which Americans in general and local governments in particular conduct the business of land use planning. Bill Honachefsky says get ready for big changes in the way we live on this planet. It's going to be a tumultuous century, particularly the first 20 years.
Major decisions are going to be made, they have to be.
Ignore the academic title, and you'll find a useful, well written and well illustrated book packed with the latest thinking on land use management, written in non-condescending but easy to understand terms and punctuated with anecdotes from the author's 30 year career as an environmental scientist, investigator and professional planner. I wrote it for the person who is a doctor, baker, construction worker by day, but at night they put on a different cap. According to Honachefsky better education and new thinking at the local planning level is key to solving the increasingly evident problems of urban growth. Federal and state environmental regulators need to incorperate local governments into environmental protection plans. His books gives straightforward solutions for controlling urban sprawl and integrating federal state and local land use plans based on the valuable ecological infrastructure.