Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 What Is Sprawl And Why Should We Care About It?; 1 What Is Sprawl?; 2 What's Wrong With Sprawl?; 2.1 The Environmentalist Perspective; 2.2 The Progressive/Social Equity Perspective; 2.3 The Public Health Perspective; 2.3.1 Sprawl = Less Walking = Worse Health; 2.3.2 Death by Vehicle; 2.4 The Libertarian/Conservative Perspective; 2.4.1 Sprawl vs. Consumer Choice; 2.4.2 Sprawl Makes Government More Expensive; 2 Sprawl As Where We Grow: Or, How Government Spreads Suburbia

1 Transportation: Sprawl-Generating Highways1.1 How Highways Made Suburbs More Popular; 1.2 Highways vs. Cities; 1.3 Counterarguments; 1.4 Solutions; 2 The School Gap: Why City Schools Are Worse than Suburban Schools, And How Federal Policy Exacerbated the Problem; 2.1 No Bad Schools, Only Bad Students; 2.2 The Root of the Problem; 2.3 No Perfect Solutions; 2.3.1 Universal Vouchers; 2.3.2 Public Schools Only; 2.3.3 Charter Schools; 2.3.4 Exam Schools; 2.3.5 Equity as a Counterargument; 2.3.6 The School Problem in Summation; 3 Housing Policy; 3.1 Subsidizing Suburbia

3.2 Sticking the Poor in Cities4 Counterarguments; 4.1 Blaming the Cities; 4.2 The Inevitability Theory; 3 Sprawl As Where We Grow, Part 2: How Government Prices Americans Out Of Cities; 1 The Problem: Zoning and NIMBYism; 2 Cause and Effect; 3 Supply and Demand Denialism; 3.1 Do Landlords Only Build for the Rich?; 3.2 Unlimited Demand?; 3.3 Induced Demand and Housing Costs; 4 Solutions and Counterarguments; 4.1 A Proposal; 4.2 Counterarguments; 4.2.1 Traffic and Infrastructure; 4.2.2 Neighborhood Character; 4.2.3 Property Values; 4.2.4 Reliance; 4.2.5 What About Local Autonomy?

4.3 Alternatives4 Sprawl As How We Grow, Or How Government Makes Suburbia Sprawling; 1 Zoning: The Segregation of Uses; 1.1 The Problem; 1.2 Solutions; 2 Density Restrictions; 2.1 The High Price of Low Density; 2.2 Anti-density Counterarguments; 2.3 Solutions; 3 Parking and Setbacks; 3.1 The High Cost of Government-Mandated Parking; 3.2 Solutions; 4 Street Design; 4.1 Supersized Streets; 4.2 Long Blocks; 4.3 Cul-de-Sacs; 5 Do Americans Really Want To Walk Anywhere?; 5 Making Walking A Crime; 1 Jaywalking; 1.1 The Problem; 1.2 But What about Safety?; 1.3 The Solution: Legalize Jaywalking

2 The War on Child Pedestrians (and Their Parents)2.1 The Problem; 2.2 But What about Safety?; 2.2.1 Minimal Risk; 2.2.2 Countervailing Risks: Or, Why It Is Dangerous for Children NOT to Walk; 2.2.2.1 Risks of harm to the public; 2.2.2.2 Risks of harm to children; 2.3 Reforming the Law; 6 Market Urbanism: Pro-Market Solutions To Anti-Market Sprawl; Bibliography; Previously published by the Author; Index