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Tax greenfield development, subsidize infill
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 8:49amI 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 - 8:14amAfter 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 - 11:59amAs 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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When the market recovers, smartly located urbanism will claim a larger share. Here's why.
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 10:43amEven before the recession began, the market for residential and commercial property in the US was changing away from a model of unmitigated suburban sprawl and toward one of more central locations, ur
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Walmart, McCain forge new alliance to fight sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:07amBENTONVILLE, April 1 – In an unusual joint appearance this morning, Walmart CEO Mike F. Duke and former candidate John R.
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Strong Centers Make Healthier Regions
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:59amThe signs continue to mount that the housing market is moving in favor of central locations, and away from sprawl. It’s all a matter of degree, of course, but the signals are real.
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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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