Impacts of Urban Containment Policies on the Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Areas

Woo, Myunje; Guldmann, Jean‐Michel

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“…Urban growth is a land use that can be difficult to address with incentive-based policies simply because the economic returns are much higher than for other land uses [34]. However, state-adopted urban containment policies that employ strict growth boundaries have been shown to significantly reduce sprawl and preserve open space, with Portland, Oregon being an example of successful containment of urban sprawl [55], [56].…”

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Current and Future Land Use around a Nationwide Protected Area Network

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Land-use change around protected areas can reduce their effective size and limit their ability to conserve biodiversity because land-use change alters ecological processes and the ability of organisms to move freely among protected areas. The goal of our analysis was to inform conservation planning efforts for a nationwide network of protected lands by predicting future land use change. We evaluated the relative effect of three economic policy scenarios on land use surrounding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wildlife Refuges. We predicted changes for three land-use classes (forest/range, crop/pasture, and urban) by 2051. Our results showed an increase in forest/range lands (by 1.9% to 4.7% depending on the scenario), a decrease in crop/pasture between 15.2% and 23.1%, and a substantial increase in urban land use between 28.5% and 57.0%. The magnitude of land-use change differed strongly among different USFWS administrative regions, with the most change in the Upper Midwestern US (approximately 30%), and the Southeastern and Northeastern US (25%), and the rest of the U.S. between 15 and 20%. Among our scenarios, changes in land use were similar, with the exception of our “restricted-urban-growth” scenario, which resulted in noticeably different rates of change. This demonstrates that it will likely be difficult to influence land-use change patterns with national policies and that understanding regional land-use dynamics is critical for effective management and planning of protected lands throughout the U.S.

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“…He concludes that strong state growth management programmes contribute to effectively preventing urban sprawl. Paulsen (2013), Woo and Guldmann (2011), and Carlson and Dierwechter (2007) deliver similar results concerning US metropolitan areas. For example, Paulsen uses a fixed-effect panel model with a dataset covering all US metropolitan areas to estimate the effects of growth management policies on urban areas.…”

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“…Under SCP, new developments are not allowed beyond growth boundaries. On the other hand, new developments are allowed beyond LSCP boundaries, and therefore relatively more land is available under LSCP than under SCP (Woo & Guldmann, 2011).…”

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Urban containment policies and urban growth

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Guldmann

2014

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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“…The issues of land consumption and environmental degradation are critical in metropolitan areas because urban sprawl has been a long-standing trend in most U.S. regions and MSAs (Woo & Guldmann, 2011). The expansion of urbanized areas and the growth in population creates footprints that often exceed the boundaries of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), reaching the boundaries of neighbouring MPOs.…”

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Megaregions and regional sustainability

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2016

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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As a new geography megaregions, networks of metropolitan centres and their areas of influence are increasingly discussed within both academic and policy arenas as more population and economic activities are concentrating in these large-scale urban configurations with growing environmental and societal impacts. This paper examines the megaregion within the context of sustainable development. The paper argues that compared to traditional planning units, such as cities, regions, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas, the concept of megaregions is able to capture the way in which economic activities, ecological ties, and social and cultural linkages actually function and operate in the global economy. While megaregions can serve as a useful planning framework for addressing each element of sustainable development, economy, environment, and equity, the successful balance and implementation of these three elements may depend on a good, yet to be developed, megaregion governance structure with public, private, and federal or national leadership. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Impacts of Urban Containment Policies on the Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Areas

Cited by 54 publications

References 40 publications

Current and Future Land Use around a Nationwide Protected Area Network

Current and Future Land Use around a Nationwide Protected Area Network

Urban containment policies and urban growth

Megaregions and regional sustainability

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