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 Stories About: interview AND placemaking AND sprawl AND urban planning
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Street Smarts
An interview with smart-growth expert and author Anthony Flint |
David Roberts |
07 Jul 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Few debates in the U.S. are more emotionally charged than the one over sprawl -- the exodus, since World War II, of America's middle class from cities to far-flung residential areas. Environmentalists, small farmers, and social-justice activists deplore sprawl for its unhealthy effects on land and communities. Suburbanites bristle at the attacks on their personal choices -- the desire for sa ... |
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| Topics: interview, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics) |
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