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It's time to adjust to the metropolitan reality
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:26amOne of the recurring themes of my writing (for example, here) has been that, to achieve susta
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Sprawl's share of new US housing starts has declined dramatically, says EPA
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:55amA new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency documents a dramatic shift in the pattern of new development
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Obama: Days of sprawl 'are over'
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 2:59pmPresident Obama set the New Urbanist world ablaze with one sentence out of an hour-long town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Fla.:
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Comments needed on projects for Obama infrastructure plan
Submitted by mbittner on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:39pmThe incoming Obama administration is gearing up for massive near-term inve
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General Jerry Brown and his War on Sprawl
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 1:50pmLongtime politician and current California Attorney General Jerry Brown has recently won a battle in his war against sprawl in his home state.
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California Adopts State-wide Policy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 2:15pmJames Temple, of the San Francisco Chronicle, writes about one of the first state-level global warming plans to get serious about emission.
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More evidence that sprawl means more pollution
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 8:21amEdward Glaeser of Harvard and Matt Kahn of UCLA have a new study out, showing that sprawling cities really do consume more energy and pollute more. Some of their conclusions:
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Top Suburban Sprawl Critic Launches Podcast
Submitted by carterburn on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 12:11pmJames Howard Kunstler, Author of "The Geography of Nowhere", Features Weekly on Talk Show
TROY, N.Y. -- One of the world's loudest and funniest critics of suburban sprawl is now podcasting.
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Why the housing slump hasn't hit New York or San Francisco
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:09amInteresting article in today's New York Times Magazine at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406Lede-t.html?...
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Take a look at China
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:06amIt is an article of faith among some defenders of the sprawl status quo that China is inevitably trending towards sprawl (thus allegedly proving that the human desire for sprawl is universal).
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