ABSTRACT
The decision-making process in urban expansion is highly complex and diverse. It is incredibly fragmented and diffused among a wide variety and large number of private individuals and organizations and among many public agencies at each of the major levels of government. 1 Some decisions are made more or less by default, in the sense that agreement among the necessary parties cannot be achieved. For instance, a tract may be passed over in the suburbanization process because the owner, the possible builder, and the planner cannot agree.
