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1 Sanchez, Thomas W.Environmental justice and transportation equity: a review of MPOsSurface transportation policies at the local, regional, state, and national levels have a direct impact on urban land use and development patterns. The types of transportation facilities and services in which public funds are invested provide varying levels of access to meet basic social and econom...Urban planning; Transportation; Metropolitan planning organizations2007
2 Sanchez, Thomas W.; Nelson, Arthur C.Problems of containment and the promise of planningWhen the expansion of cities is constrained either by natural barriers, such as New Orleans, or by policy efforts to limit urban sprawl, development pressures in hazardous areas can markedly increase. As floodplains, steep slopes, earthquake fault zones, and other hazardous locations are converted ...Disaster mitigation; Land use; Floodplains2006
3 Sanchez, Thomas W.; Nelson, Arthur C.Urban containment and neighborhood quality in FloridaRapid suburbanization since World War II in America has created many of the challenges we face today. Roads intended to relieve congestion have become congested. Cookie-cutter subdivisions have replaced scenic landscapes. Once-vital downtown stores have been abandoned as shoppers transferred their a...2007
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