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Smart Growth? Wise Up
Editorial ~ LA Times ~ Jul 11, 2007

SMART GROWTH, we want so badly to believe in you. You were centrally planned by the greatest minds of our time, conceived in an atmosphere of collective purpose and self-criticism, built to the greenest specifications and fired by a bold vision: victory over the individual will and the creation of a new citizenry for a new century. If only you would work.  PDF>>

A Defense of Sprawl  ~ EXCELLENT READING
Robert Bruegmann ~ University of Illinois at Chicago ~
September 2007

The concept of sprawl is mired in dubious assumptions about the way cities are and should be and how people should live in them. It seems to discourage close analysis of the way people actually live, the ways they might want to live and then any exploration of the political processes that will allow the most people the maximum amount of choice in their environments for living, working, and playing without unduly harming any particular group.  PDF>>

Suburbs a Sin to Smart Growthers
Steven Greenhut ~ Orange County Register ~ Dec 10, 2006

I'm always dumbfounded when ideologies take firm root among everyone who is anyone, even when those ideologies fly in the face of everything we see around us... These days, I am a bit bewildered by the degree to which another ideology – granted, one far less noxious than communism – has taken root in America, even though it so obviously stands athwart everything we see all around us. Who you gonna believe, your own eyes or the grandiose statements of ideologues? Well, many Americans, especially those in positions of power, are choosing the ideologues.  PDF>>

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