Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

many of our institutions are barriers to achieving market-driven preferences. How we should change them is the subject of the last chapter.

since the mid-1990s, the standardized test score gap among whites, blacks, and Hispanics has not changed appreciably over the past decade. The result for the future is lower incomes and higher unemployment rates. This will also affect long-term national home-ownership rates.

Generally, the less square feet that are contained in a building the more energy for building materials and operations is consumed per person (by 2.5 times) and per square foot

By removing mobile homes from the analysis, Pitken and Myers (2008) found the average annual rate of loss is about 0.50 percent.

nationally, housing is lost at a rate of about 0.58 percent per year compounded.

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US Environmental Protection Agency,2 US Department of Housing and Urban Development,3 National Association of Realtors,4 Smart Growth America,5 Reconnecting America,6 Center for Neighborhood Technology,7 Center for Transit-Oriented Development,8

Between 1987 and 2007, the United States added sixty million people—about 25 percent. During that time, its consumption of land for urban uses increased by about thirty-four million acres—about 66 percent.3

the economic value of open spaces not developed