Hot Towns 
Subtitle: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780813526966
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Local government policies; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Migration (Social Aspects); Rural Planning; Urban-rural migration; Political Science; Sociology; USA; Ratings; Planning; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; United States; Emigration & Immigration; Cities and towns; Rural conditions
First sentence: ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES people are on the move, driven by new fears, new technology, and new goals.
Description: "Hot Towns is about the current, vast national relocation of one million Americans a year, who take with them assets greater than the entire real estate value of New York City. Successful, accomplished, and well-financed people of all ages are moving to communities they view as choice - places distinguished by fine climate, physical beauty, abundant natural recreation resources, and minimal social problems and low crime."--BOOK JACKET.

"These American boom towns, Peter Wolf writes, have grown in jobs and population at two to three times the national average. But warning signs of deterioration are already evident: overbuilding, failing natural resources, rising taxes, and traffic congestion are all taking a toll on these communities."--BOOK JACKET.

"Wolf demonstrates how it is possible - even during a town's rapid expansion - to enhance the quality of residents' lives, to incorporate aesthetics and design into town evolution, to protect what is precious in nature, and to preserve the best that has already been built."--BOOK JACKET.