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The Oxymoron of Managed
Growth
Business Leader
Magazine
February 1998
Change Attitude, Create
Regional Renaissance
By Alexander Garvin, St. Louis
Business Journal
April 6 1997
Preserving the American
Dream, The Facts About Suburban Communities & Housing
Choice
Dr. Steven F.
Hayward
September 1996
Sprawl Is Not a
Threat
Don Boehmer, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
March 28 1999
Suburban Legends: Why
'Smart Growth' Is Not So Smart
Prof. Thomas J. DiLorenzo,
Sellinger School of Business & Management Loyola College in Maryland:
Published by Center for the Study of American Business, Washington
University Contemporary Issues Series 97
November 1999
Taking Private Land for
Private Interests:
The Agenda & Policies of the American Farmland
Trust
James D. Riggle & Jonathon Tolman, Environmental Studies Program, Competitive Enterprise
Institute
July 1998
Ten Transit
Myths
Randal O'Toole, Policy Study
No. 245, Reason Foundation
The Case for Suburban
Development
Prof. Peter Gordon & Prof.
Harry Richardson
March 1996
Al Gore Has a New
Worry
George F. Will, Newsweek
Magazine
February 15 1999
The Virtues of Suburban
Sprawl
Witold Rybczynski, Prof. of
Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, printed in the Wall Street
Journal
May 21 1999
Are Compact Cities a
Desirable Planning Goal?
Prof. Peter Gordon, &
Prof. Harry Richardson, Journal of the American Planning
Association
Winter 1997
Fun Things to Do with
Planners:
Comprehensive Statewide Land Use Planning
Jon A. Chandler, Portland Or.,
Land Development Magazine
Fall 1996
When Growth Gets Limited,
So Does Housing
Hays El Nasser, USA
Today
May 2 1999
Some Realities About Sprawl
& Urban Decline
Anthony Downs, The Brooking
Institution, Housing Policy Debate, Fannie Mae Foundation, Vol. 10 Issue
4
1999
Congressional Sprawl Study
Fails to Find Culprit
Hays El Nasser, USA
Today
May 2 1999
NAHB Response to Sierra
Club Report of Cost of Sprawl
Robert Mitchell, President of
NAHB
April 13 2000
The Vanishing Farmland Myth
& the Smart Growth Agenda
Samuel R. Staley, Reason
Public Policy Institute, Policy Brief No. 12
January 2000
Seeking Refuge from Urban
American Behind Gates
Roger K. Lewis, Prof. of
Architecture, University of Maryland
October 2 1995
Controlling
Growth
Editorial, The Indianapolis
Star
April 9 1999
Toolkits for Addressing
Issues in Local Communities
The Partnership for Quality
Growth
2000
Census Expected to Show
Rebound in Rural Growth
Debbie Howlett, USA
Today
March 20 2000
Suburbs Today Not 'American
Beauty' Vanilla
Samuel G. Freedman, USA
Today
March 29 2000
Smart Growth: Building
Better Places to Live, Work & Play
National Association of Home
Builders
Spring 2000
The Sprawling America: In
Defense of the Dynamic City
Sam Staley, Ph.D., Reason
Public Policy Institute, Policy Brief No.251
May 1999
A Sense of Community: Worth
the Effort
Gil Stuenkel, Opinion Shaper
Column, St. Charles Journal
October 6 1999
Cityscape: Who Planned This
Mess?
Harold Henderson, Chicago
Reader
March 12 1993
Cities Rely on Regional
Cooperation to Survive
Terence Damuel, St Louis
Post-Dispatch
June 13 1997
Pardon My Sprawl, But It's
My Choice
Karen Diekamp Hitchcock,
Opinion Shaper Column, St. Charles Journal
November 5 1997
Urban Sprawl or Urban
Choice
John Sonderegger, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
October 26 1997
The Truth About America's
Forests
National Association of Home
Builders
1995
Drs. Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson
Professors of Planning and Economics, School of Urban Planning and Development and the Department of Economics, University of Southern California. 213-740-1467. Long-time researchers, writers and lecturers who have advocated that free-market approaches are the best way to achieve economic prosperity. They wrote an extensive 1997 study printed in the Journal of the American Planning Association which indicated that America is in no danger of running out of farmland. They write that the role of government planners should be to “help the market to work, rather than attempt to strangle it.” They also authored a 2000 study titled Critiquing Sprawl’s Critics which states, “The argument that urban sprawl gives rise to excessively costly infrastructure, excessive transportation costs and environmental damage is wrong. The facts point directly in the opposite direction.”
Dr.
Richard Peiser
Former Director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate
Development, School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern
California. He is the Michael D.
Spear Professor of Real Estate Development in the Urban Planning and Design
Department in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (617-495-9558).
He is an advocate of “the right to sprawl”—saying it is the free
market way to a successful living environment.
He lectured in 1998 in St. Louis, saying that three-acre minimum zoning
like what is found in most of Wildwood, MO, is “immoral.” He believes poor land use (like government mandating large
homes sites only) is bad and that trying to stop the market from
geographically shifting to where it wants to is also very wrong.
Dr.
Alexander Garvin
On the Yale University faculty since 1967, Planning
Commissioner for New York City, frequent lecturer and author of recent book
titled The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t.
203-432-2288 or 203-432-4771. He lectured in St
Louis in the spring of 1997, and wrote follow-up for St. Louis Business Journal.
He argues that growth management controls such as “urban growth
boundaries” are inappropriate and that there are more productive ways to
revitalize inner urban areas.
Dr.
Michael L. Walden
Professor in the Graduate Program in Economics, North
Carolina State University and an adjunct scholar at the John Locke Foundation.
919-515-4671. He has
performed an economic study on residential growth finding that it often
“pays its own way” and he has written extensively about how growth
management controls are inappropriate and are no substitute for preferred free
market forces. He wrote an
article in Business Leader magazine in February, 1998, saying that
“allowing a select group of individuals to control the region’s economic
growth will stifle innovation, raise prices and disrupt the natural flow of
competition.”
Mark
Dotzour
Chief Economist, Real Estate Center, Texas A&M
University.
409-845-0369. Heavily quoted in
1997 study by Texas A&M which school news release titled “Research Shows
New Subdivisions Pay For Themselves.” He
has lectured on the topic.
Drs.
Richard Morrill and David C. Hodge
Department of Geography, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA. Co-authors of an excellent 1991 study titled “Myths and
Facts About Growth Management” in which they find great fault with the
Portland, OR, Urban Growth Boundaries concept.
Dr. Morrill is now semi-retired but still can be reached at the
University, 206-543-5285. Dr.
Hodge is at 206-543-5340.
John
Charles
Environmental Policy Director, Cascade Institute,
Portland, OR.
503-242-0900. Charles knows the
Portland experience very well. He
is the former Executive Director of the Oregon Environmental Council.
Basically, he has changed sides in the debate over land use.
A Portland newspaper account in 1997 described him as someone who
“left the tree huggers for the free marketers.”
He has written extensively since leaving the Oregon Environmental
Council on the value of the free market compared to excessive government
control. He says “sprawl” is a meaningless term. He also has researched light rail transit and his analysis of
Portland’s system indicates that it is too high cost for number of
passengers moved. In May 1998,
he authored The
Dark Side of Growth Controls: Some
Lessons from Oregon.
Samuel
R. Staley, Ph.D. and Gerard C.S. Mildner, Ph.D.
Authors of “Urban-Growth Boundaries and Housing
Affordability: Lesson from
Portland” October 1999. Mr.
Staley is Director of the Urban Futures Program (www.urbanfutures.org)
at Reason Public Policy Institute and Mr. Mildner is an assistant professor in
the School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University,
Portland OR. Dr. Staley has
authored numerous other related studies including The
Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City, January 1999.
Anthony
Downs
Well known national land planner and author, Senior
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, authored a study highlighted in February
2000, USA Today, which labeled the news “Researcher:
Sprawl Doesn’t Hurt Cities.” Downs
set out to find if movement to low density suburban growth was the reason for
inner urban decline. He says, to
his surprise, he found that there was no link.
He is a seasoned lecturer who is both informative and entertaining. www.brook.edu
or 202-797-6000.
Jonathan
Tolman
Environmental Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise
Institute. 202-331-1010.
Co-author with James Riggle of George Mason University of 1998 study
which indicates that America is in no danger of running out of farmland.
CEI generally advocates free market solutions. Among his previous positions, he worked for the White House
as an environmental analyst.
Wendell
Cox
Wendell Cox Consultancy, Belleville, IL.
618-632-8507. Reseacher and lecturer with extensive background in
transportation issues. Frequent
advocate for road and bridge infrastructure.
Cox also criticizes many light rail expenditures—especially in Los
Angeles—as being too high for the number of passengers moved.
Cox uses data to make strong case that suburbanization actually has decreased
urban transportation congestion.
James
V. DeLong
Author of Myths of Light Rail Transit
for the Reason Public Policy Institute. May
1999. DeLong provides arguments
why light rail is not the answer to modern urban congestion.
He looks at speed, capacity, decongestion, cost-effectiveness, urban
form, low income population, jobs and capital investment.
www.rppi.org.
James
D. Riggle
On the faculty at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
703-993-4626. Riggle co-authored
a 1998 study finding that America is not in any danger of running out of
farmland. A former Senior Policy
Director of the American Farmland Trust, he knows first-hand of what he
describes as AFT’s deceptive claims about loss of farmland.
AFT is the leading source for those such as the Sierra Club who make
claims about the need to curb “sprawl” and save farmland.
Dr.
Steven Hayward
Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
703-299-9514 or 703-299-8368. Dr. Hayward has
written, lectured and debated frequently in national forums on the issue of
“sprawl.” One of his reports
was released in November 1998, titled “Growth and Renewal in the St. Louis
Metropolitan Area.”
George
Will
Nationally known columnist, author of Al
Gore Has a New Worry in Newsweek Magazine, February 15, 1999.
Subheading describes the article:
‘Smart
Growth’ to cure ‘suburban sprawl’ is the newest rationale for government
growth. Will
criticizes the notion that suburban development is bad and takes issue with
arguments that strong growth management controls are needed.
Thomas
Sowell
Nationally renowned African-American, conservative
economist and columnist. Author
of syndicated column titled ‘Urban
Sprawl’ and Liberal Gall, 1999, by Creators Syndicate, Inc.
In the article, Sowell attacks as myths much of the criticism directed
at so-called “sprawl” and writes that critics of suburban growth usually
are advocates for more and bigger federal government.
Witold
Rybczynksi
Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania,
author who also wrote for The Wall Street Journal in May, 1999, article
titled The
Virtues of Suburban Sprawl. Rybczynksi
argues that most of suburbia has been planned and rather than demonizing the
suburbs, efforts should focus on how to make better suburbs and better inner
cities.
Jon
A. Chandler
Attorney, Vice President of Dotton & Associates,
Portland, OR. Jon is a witty and
experienced attorney and humorous speaker on the topic of land use and urban
growth boundaries in the Portland area. 503-223-8983. He
is the author of various articles including Fun
Things to Do with Planners: Comprehensive
Statewide Land Use Planning, Fall 1996, Land Development
magazine.
Randal
O’Tool
Senior economist with the Thoreau Institute, author of
several books. Book published
2001 titled The
Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths:
How Smart Growth Will Harm American Cities, The Thoreau
Institute. The book “shows that
smart growth increases traffic congestion, air pollution and housing costs,
and reduces urban open spaces available for families to enjoy.”
Pietro
Nivola
Brookings Institution fellow, author of
Laws of the Landscape: How
Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America, 1999. Nivola does not think Americans should expect their cities to
approach European cities in regard to densities and urban form.
He also does not buy some of the standard arguments against sprawl.
He has somewhat controversial solutions—including stronger gun
control, eliminating highway trust fund and more.