The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future

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Cato Institute, 2007 - 416 páginas
Drawing on 30 years of experience reviewing hundreds of government plans, Randal O'Toole shows that, thanks to government planners, American cities are choked with congestion, major American housing markets have become unaf-fordable, and the cost of government infrastructure is spiraling out of control. The book makes the case for repeal of federal planning laws and closure of gov-ernment planning offices. Every American who worries about the insidious growth of the Nanny State must read this book.
 

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Introduction
1
Part One Forest Planning
7
Part Two Why Planning Fails
45
Part Three LandUse Planning
73
Part Four Why Planners Fail
157
Part Five Transportation Planning
195
Part Six Why Government Fails
279
Part Seven Instead of Planning
311
Notes
357
Index
393
About the Author
417
Cato Institute
418
Back Cover
423
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