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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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Wall Street Journal on VMT, Energy, Sprawl
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 3:28pmWall Street Journal transportation columnist Joseph White just wrote an interesting piece on Vehicle Miles Traveled in America.
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The contrarian myth
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 2:52pmFor some reason, defenders of the sprawl status quo are often referred to as "contrarian." For example, if you google "Joel Kotkin" and "contrarian" you get 498 hits.
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Washington Post: The End of Sprawl?
Submitted by crandell on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 11:29amThe Washington Post ran a great piece on Sunday about how rising gas prices will push our country toward more urban development patterns.
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Chesterfield County, Virginia Hopes Roseland Can Curb Sprawl
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 3:43pmAfter years of apathy and exclusion in the planning of developments, a recently elected Board Supervisor in Chesterfield County, VA is pushing for increased community participation while halting exces
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