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Have cities turned the corner?

Last month President Obama declared the age of sprawl over. This month the EPA backs up his claim with a report showing that central cities are now claiming a much larger percentage of new residential construction permits compared to their suburbs than they were in recent decades.

If these numbers don’t exactly support the claim that sprawl is over (there’s still a lot of suburban growth, after all), they certainly indicate that sprawl is slowing dramatically. The list of indicators showing that American cities have indeed turned the corner grows one item longer.

March 3rd, 2009 | Permalink
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