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On the Edge: Metropolitan Growth and Western Environments
About the Conference | Metropolitan Wests | State of the Debate | How Is the West Different? In April 2004, 65 scholars, policy practitioners, journalists, and civic leaders gathered at Stanford University for a conference titled “ON THE EDGE: Metropolitan Growth and Western Environments Past, Present, and Future.” The areas listed below mirror the agenda of the conference. One area includes the three very different Western metropolitan case studies we discussed in small workshops – San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Phoenix, and metropolitan Calgary. Another area focuses in on some of the policy debates and policy solutions to growth management in the West – conservation trusts, agricultural land management, and the use of information technologies to map urban growth and its environmental effects. A third links to broader policy issues and additional resources. The last opens up some of the big questions tackled at this conference to further discussion, exploring how the growth management debate is different in the North American West. About the Conference The Metropolitan Wests The State of the Debates
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