Urban Smart Growth Mathematical Model and Application

Urban-growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability

Executive Summary ore than 100 cities and counties have adopted some form of a growth boundary—a limit on land development beyond a politically designated area—to curb sprawl, protect open space, or encourage the redevelopment of inner-city neighborhoods. Statewide mandates for growth boundaries exist in Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington. Urban-growth boundaries, however, have potentially negat...

The Smart Box Application Model

This paper proposes the usage of a software framework, based on the Smart Box application model, for the development of applications or appliances of the Smart Box application domain. This class of ubiquitous computing applications can be described as automatic content monitoring applications using Auto-ID technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The Smart Box application mod...

Agricultural Sustainability and Smart Growth: Saving Urban-Influenced Farmland

This paper was written by Edward Thompson, Jr., Senior Vice President, American Farmland Trust* in collaboration with the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. It is the fifth in a series of translation papers sponsored by the Funders’ Network to translate the impact of sprawl upon issues of importance to America’s communities and to suggest opportunities for progress that ...

Land Supply and Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth

A Model of Growth and Growth Control in Mathematical Terms

A PRACTICABLE MODEL OF THE GROWTH PROCESS, WHICH GIVES BETTER DEFINITION TO THE PROBLEM OF GROWTH AND GROWTH REGULATION AND GREATER PRECISION TO RELATED EXPERIMENTAL WORK THAN DO EARLIER MODELS, IS DEVELOPED ON THE BASIS OF THE FOLLOWING ASSUMPTIONS: "Growth" is the net balance of mass produced and retained over mass destroyed and otherwise lost, implying continual metabolic degradation and rep...