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Metropolitan Forces
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Metropolitan Forces Affecting Neighborhoods &
Urban Growth Management:
City and regional change have important neighborhood impacts. The region's vitality and economic development can slip away from older neighborhoods and focus on the urban fringe. Metropolitan governments can subsidize urban growth and fail to be good stewards of existing schools, parks, and infrastructure. This section focuses on the Planned Growth Strategy in Albuquerque, N.M. (PGS). The PGS attempts to guide urban growth in order to revitalize older neighborhoods and small businesses, and to foster community in new areas.

Readings:

Louis Colombo, "The Albuquerque Metropolitan Area Planned Growth Strategy: A Comprehensive Urban Growth Management System", 2003.
Reading #1 (pdf)

John Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), Ch. 3, "The City as Growth Machine", pp. 50-98.
Reading #4 (pdf)

Douglas Porter, Managing Growth in America's Communities, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997). Ch. 2, "Growth Management Approaches and Techniques".
Reading #9 (pdf)

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Selected Readings (pdf)
Metropolitan Forces

Subtopics inside:
Albuquerque Planned Growth Strategy
Urban growth and growth management
Growth management techniques