Perspective on sprawl: 50 years of urban growth in Puget Sound region

[Jerry Schneider]

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- Jerry Schneider -
Innovative Transportation Technologies
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans

[Dennis Manning]

Jerry:

 

Those stark graphics would look very much like what the foot print change would look like here in Fresno, and I suspect for many other metro areas.

 

Awhile back Jay wrote:

    What is wrong with sprawl? If I can live in a rural setting and commute to work easily and cleanly where is the problem? Are we suppose to live in high rises ala Soviet Union or Cabrini Green? It seems that one person's opinion of urban sprawl is another person's hometown. Is Riverside urban sprawl from LA...or is Bakersfield urban sprawl from Riverside? If I live in the suburbs of Cincinnati and never enter the city but commute to another suburb for work is that urban sprawl? Urban sprawl seems like a very arrogant and self serving statement.
  DM PRT would use significantly less land and energy and it would transform existing urban highways into parks and other pedestrian uses.

 

Jay. Are you sticking to your guns in arguing that there're are no problems associated with sprawl? 

 

Dennis