America's New Eco-exodus

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan

9 July 2004 - 6:00am

Is the nation on the cusp of a new kind of migration to the rural countryside?

"Jackson's prediction: Over the next century, rural America will be re-populated; with carefully distributed settlement patterns determined by how many people the land in each particular bioregion could sustain. Cities will still exist, but downscaled to about 40,000 citizens."

Full Story: Taking green urbanism to the lone prairie

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 20, 2004

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