A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West [Paperback]

A Rediscovered Frontierdescribes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. The book begins by exploring the term New West, and then describes prototypical land use patterns found throughout the West. It examines the spatial circumstances of rural and small town growth patterns, and provides examples of the kinds of development that could occur elsewhere in areas having similar geographic situations. The book takes a close look at Oregon's statewide planning approach to managing growth, and concludes with a forward-looking, cooperative approach to comprehensive planning. Intended as a text for college students taking courses in land use planning, a sourcebook for land use planning and environmental management professionals, as well as anyone who cares about western environments,A Rediscovered Frontieraddresses the social, economic, political, and above all, geographical realities of land use in the West today.Philip L. Jacksonis professor emeritus at the Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University.Robert Kuhlkenis professor at the Department of Geography and Land Studies, Central Washington University.

A Rediscovered Frontierprovides an excellent and sweeping 'digest' of the state of land use planning in the rapidly changing New West. This fine volume is essential reading on contemporary planning issues, emerging development patterns, and the convergent resource conflicts that come with landscape transformation. A significant contribution. John Wright, Department Head, Department of Geography, New Mexico State University,Atlas of the New West

Read this book if you want to know to what the New West is, where it is, and how it is changing the contemporary landscape of the American West. Jackson and Kuhlken describe both larger trends and the changes lST