Exurban Change Program - Death of Sprawl?

Since the 1990s, the story of growth and change across the US, including here in Ohio, has been one resulting in sprawling, fragmented exurban development.  These development patterns were fueled by cheap gas, easy credit access, lack of land use regulation in outlying areas, and households simply chasing the "American Dream." But couple more recent trends in demographics, consumer preferences, technology, markets and governance with recent shocks in oil prices and the housing market, and the future story of growth and change is not so clear.  This research asks the questions:  Is sprawl dead?  Or are these recent major shocks just blips in the sprawling trend line?  What are the implications of past development patterns?  And what does the future hold? 

PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

Download the presentation from the 2009 Ohio Land Use Conference at the Nationwide 4-H Center, OSU (Sept. 16, 2009) - PRESENTATION (.pdf)

Download policy brief (coming soon) - BRIEF (.pdf)

Download white paper prepared for the Baldwin Center Inaugural Symposium, October 16, 2009.  This paper is a joint project with the Center for Farmland Policy Innovation - WHITE PAPER (.pdf)