RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Landscape Sensitive Planning: A Benefit/Cost Assessment JF Landscape Journal FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 67 OP 75 DO 10.3368/lj.1.2.67 VO 1 IS 2 A1 Sandhu, Harjinder S. A1 Foster, John H. YR 1982 UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/67.abstract AB 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.