ABSTRACT
The process and character of metropolitan expansion in the United States have been priority research and policy themes since at least the 1960s (Clawson 1971). In 1975 The Urban Land Institute published a seminal three-volume examination of growth management beginning with the assertion, “The ethic of growth in America is increasingly being challenged; no longer is it being accepted unquestioningly as a premise of progress. Its effects on the quality of life are widely debated, and its management and control are seen as essential elements of modern land use policy” (Scott 1975: 7).
