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Brookings: Fastest growing poverty rates occur in suburbs
Submitted by rgallentine on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:01pm.In places where sprawl without smart regional planning continues its inexorable march outward (and with it its expensive, car-dependent attitude), it is unsurprising that these areas might also see ma
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CNU Fact Check: What War on Suburbia?
Submitted by rgallentine on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:47pm.
UPDATE: The original story stated falsely that Senator-Elect Scott Brown gained 11 points over the McCain vote statewide. The actual number is 16.... read more »
LEED awards show why ‘green’ criteria need reform
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 7:22pm.The US Green Building Council, which NRDC and CNU both support and to which we donate lots of staff time, including mine, is a terrific organization that has done a lot for the environment and arguabl
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More evidence emerges: Sprawl lengthens emergency response times
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 9:25pm.Suburban sprawl is hurting Emergency Medical Service response times, according to a new study released by University of Virginia researchers and published in the November 2009 edition of the ... read more »
John Wasik's The Cul de Sac Syndrome: Give it to your lay friends
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 1:22pm.John Wasik’s book The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, published this year by Bloomberg Press, reads a bit like a college intro class about the crisis of the American home.
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Bill Hudnut on How to Fix Transportation Planning
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 6:35pm.As I have written before, I believe most of the issues of growth, mobility, equity and the env
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"Shrinking Cities": Let's Be Careful What We Wish For
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 4:51pm.Readers of a certain age will remember Joni's Mitchell's iconic anthem "Woodstock," celebrating the famous 1969 music festival (which, incidentally, she did not attend, but I digress).
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Tax greenfield development, subsidize infill
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 1:49pm.I recently ran across a terrific post on T. Caine's sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon.
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Maybe George Will Should Stick to Writing About Baseball
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 1:14pm.After fumbling over climate change science in recent months, George Will gives transportation design and the built environment similar treatment
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Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 4:59pm.As most readers of CNU's site know only too well, the federal government has a history of subsidizing sprawl, wittingly or not.
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