TY - JOUR T1 - Landscape Sensitive Planning: A Benefit/Cost Assessment JF - Landscape Journal SP - 67 LP - 75 DO - 10.3368/lj.1.2.67 VL - 1 IS - 2 AU - Harjinder S. Sandhu AU - John H. Foster Y1 - 1982/09/21 UR - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/67.abstract N2 - Planning for urban growth using a landscape and resource sensitive model is compared to conventional planning in a case study town. The landscape sensitive approach minimizes the loss of resource values, yet accommodates urban growth. In the case study, the losses avoided in planning for a 50 percent increase in population, using a landscape sensitive approach as compared to conventional planning, were valued at about $9,000,000, far exceeding the extra cost of landscape sensitive planning, about $70,000. The computer program permits calculation of the extra losses resulting from a community-imposed land use constraint such as prevention of development on prime agricultural land. ER -