In municipalities on the urban fringe in the United States, large-lot zoning is commonly thought of as a rural preservation tool. It could preserve rural landscapes by making residential lots too expensive for most homebuyers; or it could simply lead to estates that resemble farms or retain...

The development of regions and especially those facing spatial discontinuity has been the focus in some previous work (Angelis 1980, 1999) and the region's Image has been defined as a variable expressing its relative attractiveness and its prospects of future development. The findings have been...

Community-based regionalism (CBR) is the attempt by community-based organizations (CBOs) to reorient regional policies to benefit disadvantaged communities. Advocates of CBR have mostly called not for regional governments but for collaborative regional governance processes. This article examines...