Category Archives: Smart Growth

Are Transit, Parks, And Trails The Next Atlanta Headline?

March 15, 2005 – 9:41 am

CURT JOHNSON: The very mention of Atlanta to people who’ve traveled there on business in recent years is enough to spark stories of navigating through relentless traffic. Everybody’s got a favorite horror story of being late to an appointment or missing an airplane flight. That’s one reputation. Another is as a hot spot for the [...]

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FAST CHANGING SALT LAKE VALLEY — cultivating merlot in a red zone

November 15, 2004 – 8:08 am

CURT JOHNSON: Salt Lake City — Here this week to participate in a meeting of the national Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS), I find a region reveling in dramatic change. The political map colors Salt Lake City “red”, but enough urban values usually seen as “blue” show up too. That blend colors this place a [...]

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NO ROOM TO BOOM: HOUSE PRICES AND LAND SUPPLY

September 11, 2004 – 10:06 am

ROBERT LANG: Humorist Will Rogers once famously observed that people should buy land because “they don’t make it anymore.” That message resonates with home buyers in some of the nation’s most land constrained metropolitan areas. The National Association of Realtors’ house price data for 2004 shows price spikes in places where land supplies are short [...]

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