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Passover and New Urbanism
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 12:47pmA few days ago, I came to Atlanta to spend the Jewish holiday of Passover with my family, a holiday commemorating the deparature of Hebrew slaves (also known as "the Exodus") from Egypt about 3300 years ago.
At one level, this liberation was about freedom- and so is new urbanism. Just as the E... read more »
New Urbanists are to Environmentalists as Republicans are to the Tea Party
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:09pmAfter participating in the PRO-URB listserv while following the Republican primaries, it occurs to me that there's some similarity between the Republican Party's problems with its more extreme activist wing and the relationship between the new urbanist/smart growth movements and environmentalists.
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Three-cornered politics
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 1:47pmIn metro Atlanta, the Sierra Club is allying with Tea Party activists to fight a one-cent sales tax increase designed to raise additional funds for both roads and transit, primarily because of concerns about increased funding for sprawl-creating expressways.
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