"Lincoln Institute of Land Policy." "This book is the report of the sustainable use of the land project." Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333) and index.

Foreword / Laurance S. Rockefeller -- Healthy Land Makes Healthy Communities. Today's Land Use Challenges. Good Land Use Is Achieved by Good Planning -- Making More Efficient Use of the Land. Florida: A Status Report -- Long Island (1973-1995) -- California (1973-1995). State Planning and Growth Management -- Colorado (1973-1995). New Regional Groupings. Local Initiatives -- Cost of Sprawl -- New Issues Awaken, New Strategies Emerge, New Problems Arise. New Stakeholders. Transportation. Greenways -- Hudson River Greenway: A Regional Success Story / David S. Sampson. Historic Preservation. New Designs for Communities and Neighborhoods -- Metropolitan Growth Patterns: A Homebuilder's Perspective / W. Joseph Duckworth. Farmlands. Affordable Housing. Assessing Environmental Impacts. Further Environmental Progress -- The Land and Water Nexus. Backlash -- Whose Property Is It Anyway? / John C. Shanahan -- More Growth and Change Are Coming. The Changing Economy Also Means More Pressures on the Land. Social Values in Transition Are Changing How Land Is Used -- A Land Use Agenda for 21st Century America. The Agenda -- Sustainable Communities -- Knoxville Center City Business Park Brownfields Redevelopment Project / Victor Ashe -- Loxahatchee Greenways Project / Elizabeth Shields and Matthew Sexton -- Growth Management Plans / Howard Dean -- Ecosystem Management: An Organizing Principle for Land Use / Douglas P. Wheeler -- Transportation: A Key Element in Sustainable Communities / James Lighthizer -- Across the Barricades / William K. Reilly -- Metropolitan Development Trends of the Late 1990s: Social and Environmental Implications / Christopher B. Leinberger -- Our Critical Forest Resources / John A. Georges -- Land Use Planning: A Farmer's Perspective / Ken Buelt -- Patience, Problem Solving, and Private Initiative: Local Groups Chart a New Course for Land Conservation / Jean W. Hocker -- Sustainability and Social Justice: The Changing Face of Land Use and Environmentalism / Charles Jordan -- Science and the Sustainable Use of Land / Norman L. Christensen, Jr. -- Private Property Rights, Government Regulation, and the Constitution: Searching for Balance / Jerold S. Kayden -- An Economic Perspective on the Sustainable Use of Land / John A. Baden. Land Use in America is designed to help communities throughout the country accommodate growth in better, more environmentally sound, more fiscally responsible ways. Henry L. Diamond and Patrick F. Noonan, two preeminent figures in the modern conservation movement, provide a broad overview of major land use issues of the past twenty-five years and a ten-point agenda for future action. They look at key trends and patterns of the past two decades and make recommendations for ensuring that future growth takes place in a more sustainable manner. The synthesis and analysis featured in the first part of the book is based in large part on a series of papers that are included in their entirety in the second part of the book.