A Nice Place to Live: Creating Communities, Fighting Sprawl is a new guide to urban sprawl published by Public Agenda. It takes a non partisan look at a phenomenon that is rapidly changing the country's landscape and attracting the attention of voters and candidates. Michael deCourct Hinds, a fomer New York Time correspondent, uses examples from Portland, Oregon; Dallas; suburban Baltimore; and Houston to illustrate different approaches to containing sprawl, from hyper-regulation to no regulation at all.

• 28 pp
• 1999

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