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Book reviews Book Reviews 125 Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal by William Lucy and David Phillips (Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2000) Pp. 384, $35.00 Reviewed by Richard Little dictions, in attempting to develop their In the Preface to Confronting Subur- way out of the problem, have actually ban Decline: Strategic Planning for contributed to it. Metropolitan Renewal, William Lucy Confronting Suburban Decline and David Phillips relate how Alan should be required reading for plan- Campbell, Dean of the Maxwell School ners, planning commissioners, and at Syracuse University, admonished elected off icials if for no other reason academics that if they wanted to be than they comprehend what the au- taken seriously by public off icials, they thors call the “tyranny of easy devel- needed to count things. On that basis opment decisions.” Simply stated, this alone, Lucy and Phillips should be is the increasingly default condition taken very seriously indeed. What the for much of the zoning and land devel- authors have attempted, and done quite opment process. Like a perfect storm, effectively, is to demonstrate that most this condition requires the concur- of the shopworn and simplistic notions rence of several reinforcing factors. of place, people, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

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Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 9 (2): 9 – Aug 1, 2002
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Book Reviews 125 Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal by William Lucy and David Phillips (Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2000) Pp. 384, $35.00 Reviewed by Richard Little dictions, in attempting to develop their In the Preface to Confronting Subur- way out of the problem, have actually ban Decline: Strategic Planning for contributed to it. Metropolitan Renewal, William Lucy Confronting Suburban Decline and David Phillips relate how Alan should be required reading for plan- Campbell, Dean of the Maxwell School ners, planning commissioners, and at Syracuse University, admonished elected off icials if for no other reason academics that if they wanted to be than they comprehend what the au- taken seriously by public off icials, they thors call the “tyranny of easy devel- needed to count things. On that basis opment decisions.” Simply stated, this alone, Lucy and Phillips should be is the increasingly default condition taken very seriously indeed. What the for much of the zoning and land devel- authors have attempted, and done quite opment process. Like a perfect storm, effectively, is to demonstrate that most this condition requires the concur- of the shopworn and simplistic notions rence of several reinforcing factors. of place, people, and

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Published: Aug 1, 2002

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