Urban Growth Management

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This paper reviews urban growth management, which is defined as a mechanism for orderly policy development and implementation to accommodate society's ever-developing urban trends. This paper is a literature review that identifies the major trends and issues: Not damaging the inner cities, environmental and land use, transportation and traffic flow, reduction of natural hazard risks and zoning. The author concludes that the state appears to be the ideal locus for the creation and overseeing of authoritative, but flexible, land-use and growth management policies.

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"The importance of good growth management policies and programs cannot be overestimated. The literature strongly supports the necessity of such programs as a means of allocating scarce resources in an equitable manner and ensuring that the interests of developers, citizens, the environment, and industry are all taken into account when making land use determinations. The sprawl of metropolitan areas and the decay of inner cities are interdependent phenomena which present unique problems for government bureaucracies. Effective growth management has the potential to ensure that many of the problems introduced by population shifts are addressed before they reach the point of a crisis."

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