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Alberini, Anna and Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei

Determinants and Effects on Property Values of Participation in Voluntary Cleanup Programs: The Case of Colorado
(December 13, 2005)

Cohen, James

Water Supply as a Factor in Local Growth Management Planning in the U.S.: A Review of Current Practice, and Implications for Maryland
(working paper, February 9, 2004)

Maryland's "Smart Growth": Using Incentives to Combat Sprawl
(Urban Institute Press: Spring 2002)

Using a Studio Course for Provision of Smart Growth Technical Assistance: The University of Maryland's 1999 Community Planning Studio in Perryville, MD
(Within Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaborations for Better Public Spaces: Published for the E.P.A. by M.E. Sharpe: 2005, New York, NY)

Cohen, James and Gerrit Knaap

Planning and Development Control at the County Level in the United States: Lessons from Montgomery County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia
(Submitted to the Asian Development Bank Government Finance and Trade Division East and the Central Asia Department: January 2004)

Cohen, James and Ilana Preuss

An Analysis of Social Equity Issues in the Montgomery County (MD) Transfer of Development Rights Program
(September 3, 2002)

Etlin, Richard

The Future of Tysons Corner: A Fifteen-Point Blueprint for the New "Downtown" of Northern Virginia
(Prepared for the McLean's Citizen's Association: October 21, 2004)

Frece, John

Symposium 2005: Twenty Lessons From Maryland's Smart Growth Initiative
(Vermont Law Journal: 2004-2005, Volume 6)

Frece, John and Knaap, Gerrit

Smart Growth in Maryland: Looking Forward and Looking Back
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Gabriel, Steven, J. Faria and Glenn Moglen

A Multiobjective Optimization Approach to Smart Growth in Land Development
(In Review at European Journal of Operational Research: October 10, 2002)

Hopkins, Lewis

Economies of Scale in Wastewater Treatment and Planning for Urban Growth
(Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design: 2004, Volume 31, pp.879-893)

Howland, Marie

What Makes for a Successful Brownfield Redevelopment? Three Baltimore Case Studies
(July 21, 2002)

The Legacy of Contamination and the Redevelopment of Inner-City Industrial Districts
(July 18, 2002)

Jantz, Claire, Scott Goetz, Patrick Jantz, and Brian Melchior

Resource Land Loss and Forest Vulnerability in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Kaza, Nikhil, Gerrit Knaap, and Douglas Meade

Exploring Alternative Futures Using a Spatially Explicit Econometric Model
(Presented at the 55th Annual meeting of the Regional Science Association International; November 15, 2008)

Kaza, Nikhil, Gerrit Knaap, and Kelly Clifton

Economic Scenarios and Development Patterns in the Baltimore-Washington Region

Knaap, Gerrit

A Requiem for Smart Growth?
(A Chapter in the Book Planning Reform in the New Century)

An Inquiry into the Promise and Prospects of Smart Growth
(Prepared for Presentation at the International Workshop on Urban Growth Management: August 2002)

Talking Smart in the United States
(Prepared for the International Meeting on Multiple Intensive Land Use: March 2002)

The Urban Growth Boundary in Metropolitan Portland, Oregon: Research, Rhetoric, and Reality
(American Planning Association's PAS Memo: 2000)

Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth
(Edited by Gerrit J. Knaap)
(The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)

Knaap, Gerrit and Elisabeth Holler

Web Based Planning: A Survey of Local Government Planning Websites (American Planning Association's PAS Memo: July 2003)

Knaap, Gerrit and Emily Talen

New Urbanism and Smart Growth: A Few Words from the Academy
(International Regional Science Review: April 2005, Volume 28, Issue 2, pp. 107-118)

Knaap, Gerrit and Yan Song

The Fruits of Growth Management in the Sunshine State: An Examination of Urban Form in Orange County, Florida
(Prepared for Presentation at the Critical Issues Symposium on Evaluating Growth Management in Florida, January 2005)

Measuring the Effects of Mixed Land Uses on Housing Values
(Regional Science and Urban Economics: November 2004, Volume 34, Issue 6)

Measuring Urban Form: Is Portland Winning the War on Sprawl?
(Journal of the American Planning Association: Spring 2004, Volume 70, Number 2)

The Transportation-Land Use Policy Connection
(Prepared for Presentation at the Conference Entitled, "Access to Destination: Rethinking the Transportation Future of Our Region": November 2004)

Knaap, Gerrit and Terry Moore

Land Supply and Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth
(The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: November 2000)

Knaap, Gerrit, and Zorica Nedovic-Budic

Assessment of Regional GIS Capacity for Land Use and Transportation Planning
(Prepared for the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the US Department of Transportation: 2003)

Knaap, Gerrit and Arthur Nelson

The Regulated Landscape: Lessons on State Land Use Planning from Oregon
(The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: October 1992)

Knaap, Gerrit, Yan Song, and Zorica Nedovic-Budic

Measuring Patterns of Urban Development: New Intelligence for the War on Sprawl

Knaap, Gerrit, Yan Song, Reid Ewing, and Kelly Clifton

Seeing the Elephant: Multi-disciplinary Measures of Urban Sprawl

Lichtenberg, Eric, Constant Tra, and Ian Hardie

Impacts of Land Use Regulation on the Provision of Open Space in Residential Subdivisions

Longo, Alberto and Anna Alberini

What are the Effects of Contamination Risks on Commercial and Industrial Properties? Evidence From Baltimore, Maryland.
(Revised September 6, 2005)

Lynch, Lori and Sabrina Lovell

Hedonic Price Analysis of Easement Payments in Agricultural Land Preservation Prrograms
(Working Paper)

Local Land Markets and Agricultural Preservation Programs

Moglen, Glenn

GISHydro2000: A Tool for Automated Hydrologic Analysis in Maryland
(Within Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges [Proceedings of the 2005 Watershed Management Conference])

Moglen, Glenn, Steven Gabriel, and J. Faria

A Framework for Quantitative Smart Growth in Land Development
(Journal of The American Water Resources Association: 2002)

Moglen, Glenn, Karen Nelson, Margaret Palmer, James Pizzuto, Catriona Rogers, and Mohamad Hejazi

Hydro-Ecologic Responses to Land Use in Small Urbanizing Watersheds Within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
(Within Ecosystems and Land Use Change: 2004, Part of the Geophysical Monograph Series by the American Geophysical Union, pp. 41-60)

National Center for Smart Growth

Today's Vision, Tomorrow's Reality: Summary Report of the "Reality Check Plus Growth Visioning Exercise
(Reality Check Plus final report: September 26th, 2006)

Nelson, Robert

Local Government as Private Property
(Prepared for Presentation at a Conference Entitled, "Talking About Property Rights: Now and for the 21st Century": May 2002)

Sartori, Jason, Terry Moore, and Gerrit Knaap

Indicators of Smart Growth in Maryland (Appendices, 12 MB)
(January 6, 2011)

Shen, Qing and Feng Zhang

Land Use Changes in a Pro-Smart-Growth State: Maryland, USA
(Environment and Planning A: 2007)

Shen, Qing, Chao Liu, Joe Liao, Feng Zhang, and Chris Dorney

Changing Urban Growth Patterns in a Pro-Smart Growth State: The Case of Maryland, 1973-2002

Wiewel, Wim and Gerrit Knaap (Editors)

Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places
(Published for the E.P.A. by M.E. Sharpe: 2005, New York, NY)