Smart Growth

[Ron Force <rforce@uidaho.edu>]

Electronic article on Gore's "smart growth" proposals:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1999/01/21newsa.html

Quote: "Sprawl" is not just about building indistinguishable new
subdivisions with spaghetti-like road systems and houses whose most
obvious feature is the garage. It is also about the far more personal
matter of where we live and why, and it brings up uncomfortable
questions with no easy answers: the fate of central cities, older
suburbs and the people who live in them; our conflicted feelings about
urban schools; the inequities of public spending and our rank failure to
address them; the fact that suburban life, even for committed urbanites,
is so enticingly cushioned. And, as is always true when a politician
takes on an issue that strikes at the heart of American comfort, it's
entirely possible that Gore will discover that the only thing we hate
more than the status quo is changing it. 
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