Paving over paradise: How land use regulations promote residential imperviousness

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-113

  Stone Jr , Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental planning; Impervious surface; Stormwater runoff; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE;

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; RESIDENTIAL ZONING;

URBAN PLANNING;

LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; RUNOFF; ZONING;

MADISON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 1842426551     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.10.028     Document Type: Article

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