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Land Use Planning Then and Now: Learning From History,
held May 2003 Agenda | Summary of Discussion | Pre-Workshop Framing Document | Participants What economic, political and environmental conditions have been the key drivers of urban growth in the North American West during the past century? What are the governance structures that are best suited to manage urban growth and conservation planning in today’s West? What will be the future challenges to land use planning and management in the wake of changing demographic patterns and shifts in the concentration of population? These were some of the questions raised in a lively and far-reaching discussion among scholars and policy practitioners at a one-day workshop at Stanford University in May 2003. The invitational workshop brought together thirty historians, planners, legal scholars, economists, and environmental scientists in an effort to link historical discussion with present-day planning and environmental management concerns, and to start to identify some of the key issues at stake in the past, present, and future of urban land use planning in the West. The workshop helped create a conceptual framework for a larger conference the program sponsored on related issues in the spring of 2004. |