A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. The book begins by exploring the term "New West,"and then describes prototypical land use patterns found throughout the West. It examines the spatial circumstances of rural and small town growth patterns, and provides examples of the kinds of development that could occur elsewhere in areas having similar geographic situations. The book takes a close look at Oregon's statewide planning approach to managing growth, and concludes with a forward-looking, cooperative approach to comprehensive planning. Intended as a text for college students taking courses in land use planning, a sourcebook for land use planning and environmental management professionals, as well as anyone who cares about western environments, A Rediscovered Frontier addresses the social, economic, political, and above all, geographical realities of land use in the West today.

"A Rediscovered Frontier provides an excellent and sweeping 'digest' of the state of land use planning in the rapidly changing New West. This fine volume is essential reading on contemporary planning issues, emerging development patterns, and the convergent resource conflicts that come with landscape transformation. A significant contribution." - Atlas of the New West

"Geographers Phillip Jackson and Robert Kuhlken take us on a tour of the small-town and rural West, where rapid population growth and land development are changing the social and physical landscape. From Bend, Oregon, to Ruidoso, New Mexico, they track the New West, and take the measure of challenges faced by local leaders and residents, many of whom want to fight growth, or at least channel it in ways that maintain their communities' identity and sense of place. This book will help those communities." - Atlas of the New West

"This volume is primarily aimed at professionals and policy makers involved in contemporary land use planning debates in the American West. Recommended." - CHOICE