Advocacy & Safety - Series on Sprawl in the Washington Post

Interesting series in the Washington Post on the causes of sprawl. Long, but good:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47930-2004Aug7.html

Covers the role of local government policies in creating sprawl, and more.

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I *loathe* having to register to see news articles, I'm sure others do as well.

Dave

Heck, just lie at the registration. I'm a 104 year old woman, as far as the post knows. I would be older, but I couldn't put in a birth date earlier than 1900.

Sprawl reflects not only governmental policy, but also the preference of many people, myself included, for single-family detached housing and open space. I enjoy my life in the suburbs, in a well-established, tree-lined 6.5-dwelling-unit-per-acre neighborhood, and have no desire to move into anything denser. I minimize driving by bicycling, jogging, riding public transit, and consolidating my trips.

I have not read the article, because I don't want to register.

Here in Detroit it is possible to get low-density right in the middle of the city. I once lived on a city block with less than a dozen standing homes on it. The rest had been bulldozed or burned out long ago. Some folks have even taken to farming on vacant lots here.

Dan

Here in Detroit it is possible to get low-density right in the middle of the city. I once lived on a city block with less than a dozen standing homes on it. The rest had been bulldozed or burned out long ago. Some folks have even taken to farming on vacant lots here.

That's too bad, I bet a lot of those old houses had character and nice woodworking.
When I lived in Detroit I rented a place out near Orchard Lake. Construction going on all over the place.
This was about 6 years ago.