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Comment on Karen A. Danielsen, Robert E. Lang, and William Fulton's “Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing”

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  • Michael S. Carliner

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The prescription to end sprawl that Danielsen, Lang, and Fulton propose includes regulatory changes to allow higher densities and requires consumers to choose to live in higher density housing. Most suburbanites are unwilling to swallow that pill. The market continues to demand low‐density development. Surveys conducted by a number of institutions show time and time again that consumers are unwilling to relinquish their large lots and single‐family homes. Not only do most suburbanites prefer to live in housing built at limited densities, but they want their neighbors to do so as well. This is reflected in land use regulations that mandate even lower densities than market demand would dictate. In addition to social prejudices, desires to limit noise and traffic, and other quality‐of‐life concerns, there are financial advantages, for both communities and current residents, in maintaining low‐density, exclusionary land use regulations.

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  • Michael S. Carliner, 1999. "Comment on Karen A. Danielsen, Robert E. Lang, and William Fulton's “Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing”," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 549-553, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:10:y:1999:i:3:p:549-553
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.1999.9521343
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    1. Yaw A. Twumasi & Edmund C. Merem, 2005. "GIS Applications in Land Management: The Loss of High Quality Land to Development in Central Mississippi from 1987-2002," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 2(2), pages 1-11, August.

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