A Smart Growth Bibliography:

New Urbanism/Mixed Use

American Lives, Inc. New Urbanism Report. San Francisco, CA, 1995.
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Barnett, Jonathan, The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region, New York: IconEditions, 1995.
Summary: The paper explores suburban development and the psychological and social disjoint between "old" (central) and "new" (edge) cities that has been the result. The author strongly emphasizes the role of a sitespecific transportation system to reintegrate the two. Barnett feels new transportation investments (as well as other reintegrating measures) can be funded from the savings inherent in abandoning inefficient sprawl development and can work in combination with higher density, neotraditional development and innovative policy approaches to recreate a sense of "community".

Cao, T.V. and D.C. Cory. Mixed Land Uses, Land-Use Externalities, and Residential Property Values: A Reevaluation, Annals of Regional Science, 16: 1-24, 1981.
Summary: The paper examines the effect of the proximity of non-residential land-uses on residential property values. The authors construct a theoretical model of consumer behavior and test the generalized model empirically, using the city of Tuscon, Arizona. The model results indicate that the effect of non-residential activity on property value is a priori indeterminate and depends on the relative strength of positive and negative external effects generated. The empirical test showed that over low ranges, increasing the amount of economic activity tends to increase surrounding property values. Paper (24 pages).

Flachsbart, P.G. Residential Site Planning and Perceived Densities, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 105: 103-117, 1979.
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Grether, D.M. and P. Mieszkowski. The Effects of Nonresidential Land Uses on the Prices of Adjacent Housing: Some Estimates of Proximity Effects. Journal of Urban Economics, 8, 1: 1-15, 1980.
Summary: The paper reports the results of 16 market experiments in the New Haven metropolitan area, designed to produce measures of the effects of nonresidential land uses on the prices of nearby dwellings. Each experiment consists of a sample of home sales in a homogeneous neighborhood located near a single nonresidential use, e.g. industry, commercial, high-density dwellings, and highways. No systematic relationship between nonresidential land use per se and housing prices was found. (Paper 15 pages).

Lansing, J.B. R.W. Marans and R.B. Zehner. Planned Residential Environments, Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 117, 1970.
Summary: The book present a study of people's responses to residential environments which differ in the extent to which they are planned. 1,253 interviews of single family house and townhouse residents were conducted in ten communities, which were selected to represent three different levels of planning: highly, moderately, and less planned. In addition, transportation requirements of the people living in these communities were investigated. Book (269 pages).

Li, M.M. and H.J. Brown. Micro-Neighborhood Externalities and Hedonic Housing Prices, Land Economics, 56, 2: 125-41, 1980.
Summary: The paper tests the impacts of micro-neighborhood variables on housing value. Three types of micro-neighborhood variables are examined: aesthetic attributes, pollution levels, and proximity. The empirical findings suggest that proximity to certain non-residential land uses affects housing prices by having a positive value for accessibility and a negative value for external diseconomies (congestion, pollution, and unsightliness). Paper (17 pages).

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The Influences of New Urbanism: Design, Development, and Behavior. Papers presented at the Research and Policy Seminar sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, December 8-9, 1995.
Summary: Collection of papers presented at a December 1995 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conference on The Influence of New Urbanism: Design, Development, and Behavior. 11 papers presented in three sessions. Session 1: What is the New Urbanism? Session 2: The Power of Design to Alter Behavior. Session 3: The New Urbanism Meets the Market and Regulators.

Real Estate Research Corporation. Infill Development Potential, Washington, DC: ULI - The Urban Land Institute and American Planning Association, 1982.
Summary: Discussion of the benefits of infill development: enhancing older neighborhoods, energy savings, containing housing price increases, and preservation of agricultural and environmentally sensitive land. Descriptive article (15 pages)

Starkie, Edward H. and Bonnie Gee Yosick. Overcoming Obstacles to Smart Development, Land Lines, Newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, July 1996.
Summary: The article describes the characteristics and obstacles of Oregon's "Smart Development" program. Article (2 pages).


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