Monday’s Headlines Want to Be Denser

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By Blake AuedMar 7, 2022, 5:00 am211 pts
Density is important for effective transit, but only 12 of the 50 largest U.S. cities are as dense as the average city in the 1950s, due to federal policies favoring highways. And those cities only achieved that density by directing it to certain areas while allowing sprawl elsewhere. (Governing) There are all…

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