Brookings Institute Scholar Says Pittsburgh Sprawl Is Worse Than LA
10 June 2001 - 8:00am
To Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution, who will speak to a seminar on Smart Growth in Pittsburgh, the town is slowly sprawling out of control.
"If you regard sprawl not as congestion, but as [inefficient] use of land, Pittsburgh did not perform very well in the 1990's," Katz said. Pittsburgh, in fact, could be considered "one of the worst sprawling places in the country."
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 4, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.
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