"Douglas Porter provides an extremely valuable book for all those concerned with how we address the challenges of growth. He provides a broad understanding of the varied approaches across the country, their strengths and weaknesses, and so gives individuals a firm basis for approaching their local and regional growth problems."
Linkages
"Clearly, Managing Growth in America's Communities is a serious attempt to give some order to the bewildering diversity of stuff described as 'growth management.'"
Planning
"This book is a valuable text on techniques of growth management. It is a more valuable guide to decision makers about the importance of openness and creativity."
Sustainable Communities
"In this thoroughly revised edition, readers will learn principles that guide intelligent planning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice. This is essential reading."
Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
"Planning consultant Douglas R. Porter, FAICP, has produced a second and heavily revised edition of his Managing Growth in America's Communities. He brings together the older impulse toward urban growth boundaries and infrastructure concurrency requirements with more recent developments, including new urbanism, traditional neighborhood development, smart growth, sustainable development, and the renewed appeal of urban living to certain demographics."
Planning