A case study of the Denver metropolitan area is presented to document how local governments' responses to fiscal pressure are changing the pattern of land use within metropolitan areas from one of relative specialization within constituent jurisdictions to one of metropolitan complexes composed of communities indistinct in terms of their land use. The discussion illustrates that the trade-offs which exist between fiscal productivity and environmental quality in land use decisions have the potential to compel all but high income residential communities to strive for similar mixes of land use.
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