Suburb

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb , Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the home a million people and a half-million jobs, Montgomery County built a national reputation for innovation in land use policy—including inclus