Tag: sprawl
How to Kill Land Speculation
People live in communities because natural and human-made resources make them productive places to live, work, and play. Because geographically based resources are gifts...
The American Dream of Nowhere
As I embarked on my journey the other day to a planning conference, I carried a dog-eared copy of James Kunstler's The Geography of...
D.C. Population Rises While Crime Plummets
New end-of-year data confirm what some of us have been reporting for a long time: central cities in the U.S. are no longer in...
It Takes a Village to Age In Place
A major challenge that has come with sprawl over the last half-century has been that growing up, maturing, and growing older has required, more...
Two Americas On Display: DC & Las Vegas
I was struck by two hugely contrasting stories in Sunday’s Real Estate section of The Washington Post. If you want evidence that John Edwards’s...