摘要: Nuclear power plants--high-rise developments--industrial plants -- landfills--airports--toxic waste facilities--half-way houses--shelters for the homeless--low-income housing--highways--prisons. . From Westway to Love Canal Three Mile Island, siting of unwanted facilities generates locational conflict. Locational conflict pits communities against corporations, local municipalities state and federal agencies, interest groups groups--the broader society in need a facility community selected site that facility. This book examines politics over major provides tools resolving selection controversies. It addresses issues, actors, interests--and most importantly, "methods "for finding solutions. --the is must planners, developers, groups, environmentalists, municipal analysts, all those interested land use, siting, economic development. also an excellent text courses urban planning, politics, regional development, political geography.