Sprawl

The problem of suburban sprawl

Is Phoenix's goose cooked? The metabolism of cities.

Review of The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities, by Austin Troy, Yale University Press, 2012, 384 pp., $28 hardcover

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 31 Jan 2012

The town that said 'No' to a beltway

Golden, Colorado, has doggedly fought metropolitan Denver's loop freeway for decades, seeing it as a threat to the community.

Maryland gets a very expensive toll road

The 18-mile Intercounty Connector in central Maryland charges peak-hour tolls of up to $4, and that's only the beginning of the costs.

Agenda 21 and other wacky theories

Recent strange arguments: Smart growth is a UN conspiracy, and dying cities should not emulate thriving ones.

Can grassroots planning save what's best of a rapidly suburbanizing community?

Residents of Newton County, Georgia, started from scratch and learned as they went along — eventually finding the right kinds of help and resources.

As funds vanish, New England looks at how to pursue sustainability

Boosting the proportion of development along transit networks is one goal of smart growth advocates in the region.

Posted by Philip Langdon on 05 Dec 2011

Sustainability Summit at Vision Long Island

Kudos to Eric Alexander and his team at Vision Long Island for the tenth annual Sustainability Summit Friday.

Learn to love sprawl?

Like many sprawl apologists, Bruegmann equated car usage with freedom of mobility. I like to equate freedom with having choices.

Canadian urbanists turn regional

The Council for Canadian Urbanism, at its third annual summit, vows to reach beyond cities and engage "the whole region," including suburbanites.

Posted by Philip Langdon on 12 Oct 2011

An upside-down view of where ecological damage comes from

New Geography, the pre-eminent digital defender of automobile-oriented US policy, argues that suburbs are superior to walkable urban neighborhoods in environmental performance.