>Posted on 18 Apr 1996 at 17:42:55 by TELEC List Distributor (011802) > >[PEN-L:3842] subsidies for sprawl > >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:33:28 -0700 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Eban Goodstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Anybody out there familiar with a literature on: > >(1) the degree to which suburban development is subsidized? >(2) estimates of the externality costs of sprawl? > >References would be greatly appreciated. > >Eban > >_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > >Eban Goodstein email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Department of Economics phone: 503-768-7626 >Lewis and Clark College fax: 503-768-7379 >Portland, OR 97219 There was a very good book written in the 1970s called, "The Costs of Sprawl." You might also look at Ken Jackson's "The Crabgrass Frontier," Edel, Sclar, and Lauria's "Shakey Palaces", and Mike Davis' "Prisoners of the American Dream". The latter are more history than cost accounting, but they do get into the political economy of suburbia. Marsh Feldman Phone: 401/874-5953 Community Planning, 204 Rodman Hall FAX: 401/874-5511 The University of Rhode Island Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingston, RI 02881-0815
