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Smart growth: introduction, history, and an agenda for the future

In: Handbook on Smart Growth

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  • John D. Landis

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This chapter explores the history of smart growth from its emergence out of local growth management and the new urbanism in the 1980s; to the rise and fall of state smart growth legislation in the 1990s; to HUD, DOT, and EPA's creation of the federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities in 2009. Along the way, I consider how each of smart growth's original 10 core principles have evolved and become mainstream. While smart growth legislation never gained the hoped-for traction at the state or local levels, a review of current planning documents published by the nation's fastest growing counties and municipalities - many in states where the political culture is hostile to smart growth - reveals that smart growth principles have been widely adopted at the local level. This chapter concludes with specific ideas about how smart growth may be revived and broadened to better connect contemporary population and spatial growth trends to issues of economic and social inequality and environmental sustainability and resilience.

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  • John D. Landis, 2022. "Smart growth: introduction, history, and an agenda for the future," Chapters, in: Gerrit-Jan Knaap & Rebecca Lewis & Arnab Chakraborty & Katy June-Friesen (ed.), Handbook on Smart Growth, chapter 1, pages 2-25, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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