Building Rules
Subtitle: How Local Controls Shape Community Environments and Economies
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: June 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813339238
Subjects: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building; Construction industry; Local government; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Urban communities; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; California; Economics - Microeconomics; Business & Economics / Microeconomics; Sociology - General
First sentence: In the United States and much of the industrial world, business leaders, politicians, and large segments of the public question efforts to regulate economic activities for the protection of natural environments.
Description: "Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and for how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance."--BOOK JACKET.