Abstract: Numerous communities have adopted some form of urban containment policies (UCPs), such as greenbelt, urban growth boundaries (UGBs), and urban service

One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limitin

The results of this dissertation indicate that urban containment policies play an important role in affecting urban sprawl, employment center formation, and urb

US post-war suburbanization has reshaped the spatial pattern of growth in many metropolitan areas, with population and employment shift toward the suburbs resul