From Quiet Revolution to Smart Growth: State Growth Management Programs,1960 to 1999

Abstract

State sponsorship of regional and statewide growth management programs is now four decades old. Surprisingly, much variation exists among scholarly accounts of the quiet revolution and the second wave of state growth management program history. The literature has expanded rapidly as state growth management programs have evolved in the 1990s into new phases of program history: a third wave and now a subsequent era called “smart growth.” As we look ahead to newer state programs that are designed to curb sprawl and promote sustainability, it is useful to take a comprehensive look at where we have been. The state growth management literature deserves consolidation, reconsideration, and reconciliation. With almost three hundred annotated entries, this bibliography provides a thorough, but not exhaustive, review of the literature on state growth management programs. The bibliography’s primary purpose is to identify the states that are considered, or should be considered, growth management states.