Project Archive

  

Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

This grant funded the production of an edited book, Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses published by the Urban Institute Press.

Defining and Measuring Sprawl

Defining and Measuring Sprawl

Improving the Measurement of Sprawl

Current efforts to measure sprawl suffer from two serious problems. First, neither the Urbanized Area nor the Metropolitan Statistical Area

Focus on Success: How do Children from Poor Families Escape from Poverty?

What accounts for the fact that some children who grow up in very poor households in a very poor neighborhood, nonetheless succeed?