http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/09/18/planning-and-density-whos-forcing-whom/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/09/18/planning-and-density-whos-forcing-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-120351 Judd Schechtman Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:44:15 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=50891#comment-120351 What a briliant post. But the anti-urbanism, anti-density activists are also lurking in our midst. The big question is how to get support for infill amongst our own ranks. Why are fears of congestion, gentrification, and environmental destruction so pervasive, even among progressive urbanites? Think regionally, act locally, folks. What a briliant post. But the anti-urbanism, anti-density activists are also lurking in our midst. The big question is how to get support for infill amongst our own ranks. Why are fears of congestion, gentrification, and environmental destruction so pervasive, even among progressive urbanites? Think regionally, act locally, folks.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/09/18/planning-and-density-whos-forcing-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-120271 clever-title Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:24:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=50891#comment-120271 As my father noted when the residents of a barely decade-old development in his town objected to the creation of a new residential development, "sprawl is anything built after your own house." As my father noted when the residents of a barely decade-old development in his town objected to the creation of a new residential development, “sprawl is anything built after your own house.”

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