Growing Smarter: Smart Growth In Atlanta
6 December 2000 - 5:00am
Urban Land Institute's Partners for Smart Growth Conference is being held in Atlanta, a city where the debate over the concept continues.
"Save for one apartment complex built on top of a few shops in north Atlanta, the types of projects developers and planners call 'smart growth' are largelystill on the drawing boards...People who resist "smart growth," and the higher-density projects it implies, argue that people are not going to leave their cars in the future and that the single-occupancy vehicle will still be king 20 years from now. There's evidence that the love affair with the car is a long way from cooling."
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 4, 2000
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