Sprawl

Learning from the Booming Region

Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 8:02pm.
Description: As our regions grow at astounding rates, we look to the past, present, and future of regional planning for lessons learned across the country. This session explored strategies for successful transportation, housing, and environmental planning. James Murley, Director, Catanese Ce... read more »

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Sprawl Brawl

Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 9:57pm.
Description: 6/2/06 2:30pm-3:30pm Robert Bruegmann's newly published book, Sprawl: A Compact History, is nothing short of an avid defense of every new urbanist's worst nightmare -- unplanned, socially dysfunctional, automobile-dependent development at the urban fringe. Fortunately, Anthony Flin... read more »

Globalizing New Urbanism: It's a Big World Out There*

Submitted by Filmanowicz on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 3:33pm.
Description: As affluence increases in developing countries like China and India, common sense within the development community seems to decrease—just as it did in the United States. Current trends reject time-honored patterns of urban fabric in favor of auto-dependent, energy-intensive encla... read more »

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