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Municipal Visions, Market Realities: Does Planning Guide Residential Development?

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  • Paul Langlois

    (Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada)

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In discussions about alternative modes of residential development, such as those proposed under the New Urbanist, Smart Growth, or sustainable cities movements, a common assumption is that planning is capable of implementing these visions. In this study I seek to ascertain the ability of planning to guide residential development. In contrast to much of the existing research into planning capability, which evaluates individual implementations, this study uses municipality-wide built-form data. Before and after comparisons are carried out for the primary study site, the town of Markham, Ontario (Canada), where a New-Urbanist-inspired development philosophy has been in place since the early 1990s. Results are compared with those from the city of Vaughan, an adjacent municipality that has maintained a market-led development approach. Findings are that planning is capable of moderately accelerating positive trends and moderately retarding negative trends.

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  • Paul Langlois, 2010. "Municipal Visions, Market Realities: Does Planning Guide Residential Development?," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 37(3), pages 449-462, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:37:y:2010:i:3:p:449-462
    DOI: 10.1068/b34103
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