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100			_aLinkous, Evangeline R. _934318
245			_aA Political Ecology of Exurbia in the Sunbelt: Lessons from an Award-Winning, “Unworkable” Plan
260			_bSage _c2019
300			_aVol 55, Issue 4, 2019 : (1175-1217 p.)
520			_aSarasota County, Florida’s award-winning Sarasota 2050 plan established the county as a leader in smart growth. The plan promotes a system of clustered development and open space as an alternative to sprawl beyond Sarasota’s growth boundary. Although adopted in 2002, by 2011, no projects had broken ground under the plan, which critics deemed “unworkable.” This article presents a case study of exurban political ecology in Sarasota to provide insight into the derailment of a promising strategy for managing exurban growth. Sarasota 2050’s policies were undermined by extra-local factors, including the recession and reduced state oversight of planning, and by incompatible policy agendas pursued by local interest groups. Also problematic was the plan’s cluster approach—a spatial strategy that rationalizes large landowner, planning, and conservation interests, but does little to address rural restructuring. The case points to the need for new planning strategies that mediate competing interests in exurbia.
650			_aexurbia _934319
650			_apolitical ecology _934320
650			_agrowth management _931024
773	0		_010947 _915473 _dSage, 2019. _tUrban affairs review
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1078087417726173
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