Better Models for Development in Maryland

Author: Edward McMahon and Shelley Mastran
Publisher: The Conservation Fund, 2004
Layout: Softcover, 130 full color pages
Price: $15.00

This book provides balanced and practical advice on key issues facing communities throughout Maryland, such as: how to protect the countryside, how to strengthen downtowns and how to improve the suburbs. Through extensive use of color photos and illustrations, Better Models provides examples of how key development principles and ideas can be applied to Maryland and elsewhere.

This book clearly and concisely sets out the choices facing Maryland communities. The choice is not growth versus no growth; growth is inevitable and desirable. But the destruction of community character and natural resources that has often accompanied growth is not inevitable. The real questions are how do we grow, where do we grow, and what does new growth look like. This book provides valuable ideas, information and resources on how to improve the quality and character of new development. It also provides numerous examples – along with over 200 color photographs – of development that is good for both the economy and the environment.