Does Smart Growth Preserve or Destroy Livability?
The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths: How Smart Growth Will Harm American Cities helps people understand and respond to so-called smart-growth plans that threaten to increase urban congestion, housing prices, and taxes while reducing urban open space. The 545-page book includes: • Reviews of density, transit-oriented developments, prescriptive zoning, and other smart growth prescriptions; • The facts behind more than 70 smart-growth myths; • Important statistics on urban mobility, highways, and transit; • Original research on the effects of smart growth on livability; • A close look at the anti-auto, anti-highway “congestion coalition” that supports smart growth; • A detailed review of the costs of smart growth in Portland, Oregon; • Case studies of many European and American cities; • An alternative to smart growth that focuses on using incentives to protect the American Dream.
