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Atlanta megasprawl
| Author: |
Bullard, Robert D.; Johnson, Glenn S.; Torres, Angel O. |
| Date: |
1999 |
| Periodical: |
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennesse, Energy, Environment and Resources Center, Tennessee Valley Athority, TVR Rural Studies at the University of Kentucky. In: Fair Growth: Connecting Sprawl, Smart Growth, And Social Equity; 2000 November 1; Atlanta, GA. Fannie Mae Foundation |
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http://http://forum.ra.utk.edu/fall99/atlanta.htm
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| Abstract: |
) For the past five decades, the dominant growth pattern for nearly all metropolitan areas in the United States has been sprawl: random unplanned growth that makes access to housing, jobs, schools, hospitals, and mass transit difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. Typically, sprawl-driven construction projects such as strip malls, low-density residential housing, and other isolated, scattered developments leapfrog over the landscape without any rhyme or reason. Government policies have buttressed, and tax dollars subsidized, sprawl and decentralization by funding new roads and highways at the expense of public transit.\' Tax subsidies made it possible for new suburban employment centers to dominate the landscape outside cities and to pull middle-income workers and homeowners from the urban core. Perhaps nowhere outside Los Angeles, California, is this trend more obvious, and more problematic, than in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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