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A Dispatch From The Sprawl Battlefield

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: John Flaherty
14 February 2004 - 9:00am

Craig Johnson says his town is under attack from "the unstoppable forces of sprawl."

"I am writing to you from a bunker in North Cumberland, not far from the front lines, where we have been taking some heavy hits from the seemingly unstoppable forces of sprawl. Morale is low as we count the many losses inflicted on our once-beautiful town...Yet I write of these horrors not to bemoan our losses but to send a warning of the enemy troops..."

Full Story: The destruction of Cumberland -- Will sprawl next attack your town?
Source: The Providence Journal, February 12, 2004
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And many of us – the majority, in fact – find ourselves living in a drive-only landscape, where we must burn gas even to reach a transit stop, if one exists.
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