Demographia

SMART GROWTH, NEW URBANISM AND URBAN CONTAINMENT
Urban Policy: Agriculture & Open Space

The Costs of Sprawl Reconsidered: What the Data Really Show (with Joshua Utt)

Atlanta Metropolitan Area: Population Growth from 1960 (20060917)
Atlanta: Suburban Growth Accelerates per 2000-2004 US Census Data (20060917)
London: What if There Had Been No Greenbelt: A Development Estimate (20050507)
Myths About Smart Growth and the Toronto Greenbelt (20050308)
Australia: Agricultural Land: 1981-2002 (20050109)

The Cultura in Japan: Domesticated Land: 2000 and 1975 (Urban & Farm) (20041113)
Net Reduction in Agricultural Land and Urbanization Exceeds Land Area of Texas, Oklahoma and Vermont: 1950-2000 (20041211)
USA Agricultural Land by State: 1950-2000 (20041211)
US Domesticated Land 1950-2000: Urban and Agriculture (20041211)
USA: Rural Population by State: 2000 (20041111)

The Cultura in the USA: Domesticated Land: 2000 and 1950 (Urban & Farm) (20041110)
The Cultura in Canada: Domesticated Land: 2001 (Urban & Farm) (20041110)
Net Reduction in Agricultural Land and Urbanization Exceeds Land Area of Texas, Oklahoma and Vermont: 1950-2000 (20041211)
Costs of Sprawl Reconsidered: Response to Victoria Transport Policy Institute (20040810)

Costs of Sprawl Measured in Benefits? (20040810)
David Rusk's City Elasticity Hypothesis: Measuring Happenstance (20000206)
Ceaucescu: Father of Smart Growth (20031220)
Planning is a Tool, Not a Goal (20031220)
Challenge: Public Transport v. Highway Costs (20031114)

Challenge: Transportation Choice (Auto-Competitive Transit) (20031114)
Opiate of the Planners: 13 Myths of Urban Sprawl: Public Purpose #70 (20030816)
Higher Consumer Expenditures Where Densities are Higher (20030508)
Cost of Smart Growth Revisited (20030508)
American Dream Conference: Presentation from Debate with Andres Duany (20030418)

US State Urban Share, Population & Density: 2000 (20020612)
Neighborhood Walkabity Balance Index: US Metropolitan Areas (20020812)
US Human Habitation Land: Improved Efficiency Since 1950 (20011224)
US Domesticated Land 1950-2000: Urban and Agriculture (20041211)
US State Land Use Data: 1990: Index

US Urbanization & Rural Parks: 1945-1997 (20011224)
Urban Form & Transport in the US: International Perspective (20011210)
Estimates of Cropland and Urbanization: US (20010928)
US Census of Agriculture & National Resources Inventory (NRI) Discrepancies (000422)
US Agricultural Land by State: 1992-1997 (000422)

Report: Gore to Base Urban Sprawl Claims on Inappropriate Data (991202)
The President's New Urban Sprawl Initiative: Program in Search of a Problem
The Las Vegas Forest (000623)

Wendell Cox Notification to NRI of Potential Errors: 1999.12.17 (000423)
Flawed Federal Land Use Report Encourages Unnecessary Spending (000508)
Developed Urban Land Share by State: 1982 to 1997 (010113)
Developed Urban Land by State: 1982 to 1997 (010113)
Comparison of Agricultural Land Change: Agricultural Census & NRI (20010710)

Comparison of US Cropland by State: 1997: Agricultural Census & NRI (20010710)
US City Park & Open Space Ratios (20010917)
US City Park & Open Space Ratios by Density Classification (20010917)
US Agricultural Land Change by State: 1992-1997 (000422)
Metro Denver Open Space is Thriving (010301)

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