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Schools Make Sprawl Worse

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Robert Hopwood
16 September 2003 - 8:00am

Two planning experts say schools built too far from neighborhoods make sprawl worse.

"New schools are being built too far from neighborhoods, creating more urban sprawl, two planning experts said yesterday.Though most schools used to be the cornerstones of their communities, schools have become more spread out, said David Salvesen, the director of the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies in Chapel Hill."

Full Story: Schools add to urban sprawl, two experts say
Source: Winston-Salem Journal, September 13, 2003
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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