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New Towns Prove Sprawl Is Alive And Well

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Wilf Sommerkorn
9 September 2004 - 5:00am

Two new rapidly growing Utah towns grow beyond expectations, and beyond service areas.

"The rooftops tell you all you need to know about what is happening on the west side of Utah Lake. There are thousands of them, they are multiplying like blood cells and there is no end in sight."... "'It's quite astonishing. There was nothing out there. Now it's like mushrooms sprouting,' say an economist with the Utah Bureau of Economic and Business Research."

Full Story: Booming cities put Utah County to test
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune, September 7, 2004
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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