This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Proximity Is Good -- 3 Cars, Pollution, and Accidents -- 4 Congestion -- 5 Mass Transit -- 6 Land -- 7 Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight? -- 8 Rules -- 9 Water, Sewers, Fire, and Garbage -- 10 Education -- 11...