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The headlines about cities celebrate their resurgence, with empty
nesters and Millennials alike investing in our urban areas, moving
away from car dependence, and demanding walkable, transit-oriented
neighbourhoods. But, in reality, these changes are taking place in
a scattered and piecemeal fashion. While areas of a handful of
cities are booming, most US metros continue to follow old patterns
of central city decline and suburban sprawl. As demographic shifts
change housing markets and climate change ushers in new ways of
looking at settlement patterns, pressure for change in urban policy
is growing. More and more policy makers are raising questions about
the soundness of policies that squander our investment in urban
housing, built environment, and infrastructure while continuing to
support expansion of sprawling, auto-dependent development.
Changing these policies is the central challenge facing US cities
and metro regions, and those who manage them or plan their future.
In America's Urban Future, urban experts Tomalty and Mallach
examine US policy in the light of the Canadian experience and use
that experience as a starting point to generate specific policy
recommendations. Their recommendations are designed to help the US
further its urban revival, build more walkable, energy-efficient
communities, and in particular, help land use adapt better to the
needs of the ageing population. Tomalty and Mallach show how
Canada, a country similar to the US in many respects, has fostered
healthier urban centres and more energy- and resource-efficient
suburban growth. They call for a rethinking of US public policies
across those areas and look closely at what may be achievable at
federal, state, and local levels in light of both the constraints
and the opportunities inherent in today's political systems and
economic realities.
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