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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"exurbia"”.
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Country Ain't Country No More: A Typology of the Nation's Fast-Growing Peripheral Counties
… null hypothesis and suggests that more than one exurbia exists. This study also explores the varying pressures and demands faced by the different exurban county types in response to massive and compounding growth stresses, recognizing the complexity of managing growth in the fringe and the …
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The Mis/Alignments of Land Use Controls with Perceived Local Preferences in Porter County, Indiana
In the past several decades, exurban areas have grown quickly, and are predicted to continue growing. Two broad schools of thought have emerged to explain low-density growth, one claiming homebuyer preference and the other claiming that local land use controls exclusively require low-density …
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Assessing growth preferences on the rural-urban fringe using a discrete choice model and spatial analysis methods
Landscapes on the rural-urban fringe are experiencing change and diversification, yet the preferences of local residents for how these landscapes should develop is largely overlooked. My thesis contributes to a growing body of research that explores residents’ preferences for landscape change …