Monthly Archives: October 2002

Index of Weblog Posts – October 2002

October 31, 2002 – 8:44 am

Smart America’s Super-Sprawl Report: Most of the Story Civically Challenged? Downtowns vs. Infinite Sprawl

By Farley Peters | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

Smart America’s Super-Sprawl Report: Most of the Story

October 21, 2002 – 7:29 pm

Smart Growth America’s just-released report, Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact, has been winning high marks from land use cognoscente because it has a solid academic research base (Rutgers’ Reid Ewing, Cornell’s Rolf Pendall, Smart Growth America’s Don Chen). And because it’s comprehensive, using no less than 22 variables to rate metro areas — essentially how [...]

By Neal Peirce | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

Civically Challenged?

October 9, 2002 – 8:44 am

Boundary crossers, community connectors, learning groups — what are the new forms of civic engagement surfacing to meet America’s changing lifestyles? In the world where diversity now reigns, how are people forging ties, building relationships and improvising on old leadership structures in order to be part of “the buzz”? Are these new operating styles having [...]

By Farley Peters | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)