A01=Hubert B. Stroud
Author_Hubert B. Stroud
Category=JKSG
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801867583
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 1995
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain communities had positive impacts on the surrounding region while others did not. Focusing on well-known developments in Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Arkansas, and Tennessee, he finds that most developments were poorly planned, resulting in environmental damage, overtaxing of public services, and social and economic problems. Yet Stroud acknowledges that future development is inevitable, as recreational and retirement communities continue to lure urban America with the promise of paradise.
Hubert B. Stroud is professor of geography at Arkansas State University.
