ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses that does urban containment improve neighborhood quality. It also examines that the impacts of urban containment on neighborhood quality differ by the regional scope of urban containment policy. This research may help inform policy-makers, citizens, and interest groups on how such policy interventions as urban containment in its different forms can affect perceptions of neighborhood and housing quality. The chapter finds that the significant neighborhood quality impact seems to be a recent phenomenon that is only observed in the 1997-2001 period for the national sample, and mostly among the metropolitan areas where parts have had containment for several decades. This implies that as urban containment takes hold, household sorting and associated development investment possibly becomes focused inward thereby elevating neighborhood quality over time. It is evident that neighborhood and housing unit quality under conditions of regional urban containment rose over both time periods relative to non-containment and sub-regional containment.
