Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl The Case for Market Urba
This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view
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Michael Lewyn
Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl The Case for Market Urbanism
Michael Lewyn Touro College New York, New York, USA
ISBN 978-1-349-95148-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95149-9
ISBN 978-1-349-95149-9 (eBook)
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My parents: Bert and Esther Lewyn
PREFACE
The purpose of this preface is to explain why I came to write this book, and in doing so to give readers a sneak preview of what the book is about. I first became interested in the question of suburban sprawl in the mid1990s, when I was a law firm associate in a then-declining city. In those days, the conventional wisdom seemed to be that sprawl was a creature of the free market, and that if you supported limited government, you should support sprawl. But as I read more, I discovered a more complicated reality. The same environmentalists who were fighting suburban development were also fighting government agencies that wanted to widen roads that facilitated such development. Moreover, one reason suburbs were more attractive than cities were because government-run schools were more attractive in suburbs than in cities—another example of government loading the dice in favor of suburbia. Moreover, it seemed to me that the ultimate goals of the anti-sprawl movement were somewhat libertarian. I grew up in 1970s Atlanta, when downtown was in rapid decline, and owning a car seemed mandatory for a normal life. So it seemed to me that reversing these trends crea
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