Urban sprawl, smart growth, and deliberative democracy

D.B. Resnik

American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 100, issue 10, 1852-1856

Abstract: Urban sprawl is an increasingly common feature of the built environment in the United States and other industrialized nations. Although there is considerable evidence that urban sprawl has adverse affects on public health and the environment, policy frameworks designed to combat sprawl-such as smart growthhave proven to be controversial, making implementation difficult. Smart growth has generated considerable controversy because stakeholders affected by urban planning policies have conflicting interests and divergent moral and political viewpoints. In some of these situations, deliberative democracy -an approach to resolving controversial public-policy questions that emphasizes open, deliberative debate among the affected parties as an alternative to voting - would be a fair and effective way to resolve urbanplanning issues.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.182501

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