scholarly journals Urban Containment Planning: Is It Effective? The Case of Portland, OR

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12925
Author(s):  
Giulio Giovannoni
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Urban Containment ◽  
Centralized Planning ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Land Use Controls

The paper attempts to evaluate Oregon’s and Portland’s growth management policies as for their tradeoffs between effectiveness in containing urban sprawl and impacts on housing markets and on property values. Carruthers argued that in order to correctly evaluate growth management policies, it is necessary to jointly consider their effects on urban development patterns, on land and housing markets, and on the fragmentation of land use controls. Nowadays, we have sufficient empirical research to evaluate the effects of Oregon’s growth management policies both on land markets and housing affordability and on urban development patterns. Therefore, the time has come to comprehensively reanalyze this longstanding case of public regulation. Once again, the issue of comparing grounded-on-planning–regulations’ effectiveness with grounded-on-price regulations’ effectiveness is at stake. The paper finds that urban-containment centralized-planning in Portland and Oregon have not been effective in containing sprawl and that price-based mechanisms are the most logical solution to the excess of sprawling urban growth.

scholarly journals Growing Ontario Responsibly: A Look At The Impact Of The Growth Plan For The Greater Golden Horseshoe On Ontario's Economic Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly O'Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Growth Management ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Urban Containment ◽  
Market Impacts ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
The Impact

This Major Research Paper (MRP) will examine the consequences of the proposed Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) on the economic trends of southern Ontario. As a type of regulatory tool, the Growth Plan has inevitable market impacts that must be studied, understood, and mitigated when making policy decisions. Increasing evidence has pointed towards housing affordability, and supply of land and housing types, as two broad market impacts of regulatory tools that fall under the branch of ‘growth management’, ‘urban containment’, and ‘smart growth’. The subject of this MRP is the economic impact of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, imposed by the provincial government, and implemented on a municipal level. In 2015, the province initiated its first ten-year review of the 2006 Growth Plan for the GGH. The province released proposed amendments to the Growth Plan in the summer of 2016 following an analysis by a selected panel of experts and input from community consultations. It is anticipated that these proposed amendments will exasperate the widespread affordability issues of the GGH, create a more homogenous built form and building typology, and ignore the diversity of municipalities across the impacted area. A thorough analysis of these adverse effects will be provided along with recommendations on how the province can better balance the environmental, social, and economic goals of the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

“Managed” Urban Land Markets

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Ellson ◽  
R. Blaine Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Optimal Conditions ◽  
Competitive Model ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Urban Land Markets

In this article we derived the socially optimal conditions for the implementation of growth management policies in urban areas. We showed that prior research could be biased because it failed to model a land transition process explicitly. Next, we demonstrated the conditions under which growth management is equivalent to the perfectly competitive model. Finally, we assessed the desirability of each policy given the practical realities of urban land markets.

scholarly journals Growing Ontario Responsibly: A Look At The Impact Of The Growth Plan For The Greater Golden Horseshoe On Ontario's Economic Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly O'Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Growth Management ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Urban Containment ◽  
Market Impacts ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
The Impact

This Major Research Paper (MRP) will examine the consequences of the proposed Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) on the economic trends of southern Ontario. As a type of regulatory tool, the Growth Plan has inevitable market impacts that must be studied, understood, and mitigated when making policy decisions. Increasing evidence has pointed towards housing affordability, and supply of land and housing types, as two broad market impacts of regulatory tools that fall under the branch of ‘growth management’, ‘urban containment’, and ‘smart growth’. The subject of this MRP is the economic impact of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, imposed by the provincial government, and implemented on a municipal level. In 2015, the province initiated its first ten-year review of the 2006 Growth Plan for the GGH. The province released proposed amendments to the Growth Plan in the summer of 2016 following an analysis by a selected panel of experts and input from community consultations. It is anticipated that these proposed amendments will exasperate the widespread affordability issues of the GGH, create a more homogenous built form and building typology, and ignore the diversity of municipalities across the impacted area. A thorough analysis of these adverse effects will be provided along with recommendations on how the province can better balance the environmental, social, and economic goals of the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

Smart growth characteristics and the spatial pattern of multifamily housing in US metropolitan areas

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (15) ◽  
pp. 3500-3523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McMillan ◽  
Sugie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Growth Management ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Growth Index ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Growth Characteristics ◽  
Multifamily Housing ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Us Census

This paper examines the relationship between smart growth policies and other social and physical characteristics and the supply of multifamily housing units in 202 core-based metropolitan statistical areas (CBSAs) in the USA. Data for this study were gathered from the GeoLytics Neighborhood Change Database for the 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 US Census. The smart growth characteristics of each CBSA are determined by a smart growth index and a catalogue of urban containment rankings, while other social and physical characteristics are obtained from the US Census. This allows us to examine potential differences in development patterns between CBSAs with varying levels of sprawl and growth containment policies. Two regression models are used to determine statistically significant relationships between multifamily development patterns and growth management policies, as well as other social and physical characteristics. The results indicate that high levels of sprawl are associated with relatively fewer multifamily units, especially in suburban areas. In addition, several population demographics that may potentially benefit from multifamily units, such as senior citizens, the population in poverty and smaller households, are less likely to live in areas with higher rates of multifamily units. These findings indicate that planners and policymakers should consider the needs of more diverse communities when planning for housing, especially in suburban areas, where housing diversity is constricted.

Urban development patterns and exposure to hazardous and protective traffic environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan G. Rosenlieb ◽  
Carolyn McAndrews ◽  
Wesley E. Marshall ◽  
Austin Troy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Patterns

scholarly journals Is There a Link Between Growth Management Regulations and Housing Affordability in the Town of Markham?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Town

The primary objective of this research paper is to identify and understand the potential impacts of growth management regulations (the Greenbelt Plan and the GPGGH) on housing affordability in the Town of Markham and to explore what, if anything, Markham is doing to mitigate potential negative impacts. Relevant quantitative and qualitative data was reviewed relative to growth management and the Town of Markham and it was found that there are some potential links. Despite finding potential links, it is impossible to make a definitive and causal relationship between the two due to the discrepancies in measuring affordability and myriad variables that have the potential to influence affordability.

scholarly journals From actors to space, through processes: reflections from co-production and commoning

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. C06
Author(s):  
Paola Alfaro - d'Alençon ◽  
Horacio Torrent
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Space Production ◽  
New Generation

Under new state-led governance models, a new generation of city entrepreneurs seeks to define work and living environments to meet their needs and aspirations in a collaborative way. In this field, international discourses are debating private investors as key players in urban development and the simultaneous withdrawal/absence of the state. This has led to more complex networks of participating actors and conflictive urban development patterns. Strategies are needed to understand the influence of commons-based space production. From the research project DFG-KOPRO-Int, the Authors aim to define learnings from urban development and housing projects, involved actors, processes and material quality of the projects.

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