ABSTRACT
During the 1990s “smart growth” supplanted growth management as the principal mechanism to deal with problems of growth. While growth man agement sought to regulate “the amount, timing, location, and character of development” (Levy 1988, 218), smart growth calls for the accommodation of growth because, it is maintained, growth is inevitable but the problems associated with it are not. Smart growth proponents argue that by creating more compact development patterns, promoting urban reinvestment, and designing communities that are mixed-use, higher density, transit-oriented and pedestrian-friendly, we can eat the growth cake and have it too.
