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How sprawl got a bad name.
There is overwhelming evidence that urban sprawl has been beneficial for many people. Year after year, the vast majority of Americans respond to batteries of polls by saying that they are quite happy with where they live, whether it is a city, suburb, or elsewhere. Most objective indicators about American urban life are positive. We are more affluent than ever; home ownership is up; life spans are up; pollution is down; crime in most cities has declined. Even where sprawl has created negative consequences, it has not precipitated any crisis.
So what explains the power of today's anti-sprawl crusade? How is it possible that a prominent lawyer could open a recent ...
- Study Says Los Angeles-Area Sprawl Has Depleted Resources.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 7, 2001 700+ words
...tanks, says "sprawl has hit the...five-county Los Angeles metropolitan...neighboring Los Angeles and Orange counties. The sprawl study encourages...report, titled "Sprawl Hits the Wall...Metropolitan Los Angeles," to civic...
- Hollywood Sprawl.(Ballona wetlands in Los Angeles, California)
- Magazine article from: The Nation GIBSON, J. WILLIAM March 1, 1999 700+ words
...the far southern fringe of Los Angeles, where the city meets the...of private land left on the Los Angeles basin floor. Urban sprawl has taken everything else...marsh and upland ecosystem in Los Angeles County. Coastal developments...
- Scholar Says Pittsburgh-Area Sprawl Rivals Los Angeles.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 8, 2001 700+ words
...than in traffic-choked Los Angeles, Phoenix or Atlanta. "If you regard sprawl not as congestion but as...hours less than the average Los Angeles motorist. But Katz's...also made it easier for sprawl to spread in the 1970s...
- New York Sprawls more than Los Angeles, study finds. (Research...
- Newspaper article from: California Planning & Development Report Fulton, William August 1, 2001 700+ words
...Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. The report, "Who Sprawls Most?" concluded that there are significant differences...the most densely populated places in the country. In fact, Los Angeles replaced New York as the densest metro area on the continental...
- Don't dismiss L.A.-style sprawl as a failed experiment.(COMMENTARY)(urban...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Kotkin, Joel April 18, 2005 700+ words
...stellar economy, it is often hard to see Los Angeles as a model of much of anything. Yet...suburb-dominated development predates Los Angeles' early 20th century emergence, this...specifically the wide breadth of the Los Angeles basin, further bolstered the conditions...
- Vote to decide fate of Hollywood, Valley; Secession of two regions seen as...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 19, 2002 700+ words
...Valerie Richardson, THE WASHINGTON TIMES LOS ANGELES - Imagine New York City without Manhattan...ve got a pretty good idea of what Los Angeles could look like come November. Two...5. It's a vote that could cost Los Angeles more than 1 million residents, its...
- Los Angeles Suburb's Local Shops Withstand Malls, Sprawl.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 9, 2003 700+ words
By Brent Hopkins, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 9--CANOGA PARK...http://www.dailynews.com. (c) 2003, Daily News, Los Angeles. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
- Los Angeles Lacks Jobs near City's Center, Study Finds.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 1, 2001 700+ words
...report that targeted Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange counties sprawl as the second...Among the "Job Sprawl" study's conclusions: The Los Angeles-Long Beach area...Fulton, an expert on Los Angeles urban sprawl, said the job market...
Source: HighBeam Research, How sprawl got a bad name.