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Smart Growth: the Worst Kind of Sprawl?
One of the fundamental principles of “Smart Growth” is to increase residential density by infill in existing areas, and by redeveloping existing residential areas more densely. The claim is that this...
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Resisting Dickensian Gloom
High-density development in Australia is causing more greenhouse gases than the suburbs, argues Dr. Tony Recsei of the group Save Our Suburbs, in this rebuttal of a blog post by Michael Dudley. There...
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Looking Out for the View at Olana, Frederic Church’s Hudson Home
DOROTHY BROWN, 80, the matriarch of Cherry Ridge Farms, doesn’t use the word “viewshed,” but she is standing in one she helped to save, as she looks up the hill at Olana, Frederic E. Church’s grand...
View ArticleTiny Grand Canyon Town Has Its Say on Big Project
TUSAYAN, Ariz. — Three million square feet is enough to hold about 70 percent of the Mall of America, and if a group of investors get their way, they will need that much space for all the hotels,...
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Peter Douglas, Sentry of California’s Coast.
Peter Douglas, who fought for decades to preserve the California coast — treasured for its vast stretches of pristine beaches, jagged cliffs and delicate wetlands — died on April 1 at his sister’s home...
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Lucas and Rich Neighbors Agree to Disagree: Part II
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — In 1978, a year after “Star Wars” was released, George Lucas began building his movie production company far from Hollywood, in the quiet hills and valley of Marin County here just...
View ArticleBad News for the Badlands: Teddy Roosevelt’s historic ranch
I HAVE good news and bad news from the Badlands of North Dakota, one of our loveliest and most fragile wildernesses. And even the good news is mostly bad: The National Trust for Historic Preservation...
View ArticlePopulation Growth is the Problem: Vermont
Few publications offer any in-depth coverage of U.S. population growth, and the Free Press deserves credit for including the views of people like George Plumb (Green Mountain: “Already over the edge?”...
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In the Shadow of Rising Towers, Lost Sunlight in N.Y.
Having to live in someone else’s shadow is one of the risks of being a New Yorker. Yet for untold thousands, this vexing state of affairs is literally true. In a city forever sprouting new buildings,...
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