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Orange County Grows Up

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
10 October 2004 - 11:00am

Orange County, CA, responds to urban sprawl with high-rise housing.

"Their reasons vary, but all are buying units in a luxury, 18-story condominium rising alongside office buildings and a fashionable shopping center in Orange County, a place where people typically live at sea level and rely on their cars to get everywhere.

The county that was shaped by postwar urban sprawl appears to be in the vanguard of a much different trend: Instead of building cookie-cutter homes in tidy subdivisions, it is hoping to create traditional downtowns from scratch."

Full Story: California county looks upward to fight urban sprawl
Source: The Arizona Republic, October 10, 2004
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