Moving Beyond ‘Smart Growth’ to a More Holistic City Agenda

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By Angie SchmittJul 8, 2014, 10:16 am54 pts
I have spent most of the last twenty years working on an agenda grounded in, for lack of a better phrase, “smart growth.” That agenda basically holds that our regions must replace suburban sprawl with more compact forms of growth and development; that neighborhoods must be walkable and convenient; that…

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