Archive for October, 2007

October 2, 2007 16:28

The Truth about Sprawl

Sprawl is a by-product of growth and choice. New Urbanism will have very little (or nothing at all) to do to influence the overall impact of sprawl. Put another way, if all of our cities were built to higher densities, they would still exist at the same distances apart. Highway miles, air travel, rail transit would be no different. Within the communities, in theory residents would live in harmony, strolling through tree-lined streets gathering at destinations just a five or ten minute walk away.