Abstract This article looks at the efficacy of a diverse set of local growth management programs undertaken in the United States since the early 1970s. Organized into three sections, it begins with a brief history of growth management milestones, tracing the evolution of growth management programs from Ramapo, New York’s original 1969 ordinance to the emergence of the Smart Growth movement in the mid-1990s. A second part organizes and summarizes the growth management efficacy and adverse effect literatures. A third part takes a fresh look at the success of local growth management programs by comparing population growth, sprawl, and fiscal and housing price outcome measures across eight pairs of communities, one of which (i.e., “case study community”) adopted a growth management program, and the other (i.e., “peer community”) which did not. It concludes with a summary assessment of fifty years of local growth management experiences, along with some lessons for how planners might best deal with forthcoming rounds of suburban growth.

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美国本土成长管理五十年

摘要 本文着眼于自 1970 年代初以来在美国开展的一系列不同的地方增长管理计划的有效性。它分为三个部分，从增长管理里程碑的简要历史开始，追溯增长管理计划的演变，从纽约最初的 1969 年法令 Ramapo 到 1990 年代中期智能增长运动的出现。第二部分对生长管理功效和不良反应文献进行整理和总结。第三部分通过比较八对社区的人口增长、蔓延以及财政和房价结果措施，重新审视当地增长管理计划的成功，其中一个（即“案例研究社区”）采用了增长管理计划，而另一个（即“同行社区”）则没有。