Executive Summary posted June 25, 2004 by Wendell Cox, Joshua Utt
Executive Summary: The Costs of Sprawl Reconsidered: What the Data Really Show
The Costs of
Sprawl?
The "anti-sprawl" movement has received much attention in
recent years, and has been successful in implementing its "smart
growth" policies in some areas. Much of the justification for the
current campaign against the low-density (sprawling) urban
development that Americans and Western Europeans prefer is based
upon assumptions that…
Backgrounder posted June 25, 2004 by Wendell Cox, Joshua Utt
The Costs of Sprawl Reconsidered: What the Data Really Show
Over
the past several years there has emerged in the United States an
influential political movement whose purpose is to severely limit,
or even prohibit, further suburbanization. This "anti-sprawl"
movement has received much attention and has been successful in
implementing its restrictive land-use policies in some areas. Much
of the justification for the…