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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Sprawl bribery is beating smart growth	David Roberts	24 Jul 2006	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money. He can be reached through sprawlkills.com. ----- When the small town of Warrenton in sprawl-rich northern Virginia received an offer of $22 million in cash from Centex Homes, one of the nation's largest developers and home builders, one reaction of concerned parties was, OK, sounds like an environmentally acceptable plan for near ...
Topics: placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: interview, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

What a green wants: An index-card manifesto (first draft) A positive environmental program that can (almost) fit on an index card	David Roberts	17 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Without further ado, here's the first draft of my index-card manifesto. It turned out to be two index-card manifestos, with five points each: one for stuff I consider immediately urgent, and a second for what I consider longer-term goals. Feedback is welcome -- nay, requested. (I'll discuss the whole project more in a subsequent post.) WHAT A GREEN WANTS: IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES Energy efficiency: Proven techniques can get the same amount of work with 50% of the oil. ...
Topics: agriculture, cars, electricity grid, energy, environmental movement, green living, messaging, placemaking, renewable energy, urban planning (all these topics)

Chattanooga The city has transformed itself into one of the nation's most forward-thinking	David Roberts	20 Jan 2006	Gristmill
I've always thought that if I had to move back to my home state of Tennessee, I'd kill myself live in Chattanooga. It used to be one of the most polluted cities in the country. I remember driving through it on the way to Atlanta -- it was nasty, dirty, bleak, and oh my god, the smell. A real shithole. But in the last 20 or 30 years, the city has completely turned around, and now it's one of the most forward-thinking, progressive cities in the Southeast ...
Topics: placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning (all these topics)

Want to tackle global warming? Start with heart disease. The best thing greens can do is convince the public that eco-friendly lifestyles are healthier	David Roberts	01 Oct 2005	Gristmill
Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. and most European countries. In the latest issue of Newsweek there's a story about it called "Designing Heart-Healthy Communities." Here's how it starts: Forecasting heart disease is becoming an ever-finer art, as researchers learn more about the risk factors. But here's a predictor you may not have heard about: street address. In a study published last year, scientists at the RAND Corp. scored ...
Topics: green living, health, innovation, urban planning (all these topics)

Suburbia, oil, and preferences Why can't we change our oil-sucking land-use preferences?	David Roberts	06 Jun 2005	Gristmill
The other day I expressed disappointment at Kevin Drum's fifth peak oil post -- the one where he lays out his recommendations for oil policy. In my inimitably oblique and unfocused way, I was simply trying to say that I wish he'd been more imaginative. If nothing else, peak oil is going to be a major inflection point in our collective history. It's a sharp turn in the road, and we can't see clearly around the bend. The stakes are huge, and call for a commensurate ...
Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Sprawl and The Body Politic Jesse Ventura wants to ride light rail	Erik Ness	18 Jun 1999	Main Dish
PR professionals the world over must be scratching their heads at the sudden surge of interest in sprawl. The topic has all the sex appeal of a zoning meeting or a traffic jam -- being about zoning meetings and traffic jams -- and its number-one spokesperson is V. (as in vanilla) P. Al Gore. The planet almost tilts as the viewing public reaches en masse for their remotes, surfing for something more entert ...
Topics: Minnesota, placemaking, politics, public transportation, sprawl, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

White Flight, Green Fright? The Intermountain West becomes a California suburb	Richard Manning, Writers on the Range	17 May 1999	Main Dish
By Richard Manning and Writers on the Range 17 May 1999 One does not expect enlightenment from a barber shop conversation, but there it was. I'd always had hunches about the nature of demographic change in Western mountain towns, nasty hunches, hunches counter to the conventional wisdom that immigration was motivated by the newcomers' love of the land, so the newcomers would become allies in environmental struggles. ...
Topics: California, Montana, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

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