Economic Growth and Public Land Planning in the Las Vegas Valley

Privately published, Published 1965. Wraps, 186 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and numerous statistical tables and figures. In Good condition. Printed cream paper wraps with a quarter brown cloth spine; small line-drawing vignette on front. Light shelf wear, with bumping and creasing to edges and corners and a soft crease to the upper front cover; light soiling and toning to covers. Binding tight (staple bound, cloth tape spine), with a 1 inch slit to the cloth tape at the foot of the spine. Interior lightly toned, clean and unmarked apart from the date stamp of the Office of the Nevada State Engineer (1966) to a rear leaf. Otherwise unmarked. A commissioned 1965 economic study of population growth and public-land planning in the Bureau of Land Management's Las Vegas Valley Planning Area, prepared by Gerhard N. Rostvold, Professor of Economics at Pomona College and later president of the Western Economic Association. Drawing on extensive Clark County data (employment, payrolls, Nellis Air Force Base groundwater demand, Lake Mead water imports, construction permits, and year-by-year urbanization), it projects population and urban land needs through the year 2020 and sets out a priority framework for the BLM's disposal of public lands to governmental and private interests as the valley urbanized. The report stands as an early economic articulation of the federal land-disposal approach later formalized at scale by the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998. An original distribution copy of the Office of the Nevada State Engineer. Contents: Introduction; Summary of Major Findings and Conclusions; Economic Profile of the Las Vegas Valley Planning Area; The Recent Geographic Pattern of Urbanization; The Profile of Local Government; Local Government Public Land Needs; The Future Pattern of Urbanization and Land Use; Policy Implications and Recommendations. Title: Economic Growth and Public Land Planning in the Las Vegas Valley Author Name: Gerhard N. Rostvold Location Published: Claremont, California, Privately published: 1965 Binding: Wrappers Book Condition: Good Size: 26 cm Type: Wrappers Categories: History, State & Local, Economics Seller ID: 20260617011 Keywords: blm land use, clark county nevada, las vegas history, nevada economic history, public land planning