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Urban Sprawl Vs. Homeland Security

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Keith Schneider
10 January 2002 - 10:00am

Urban sprawl almost certainly poses a far greater threat to your health than bioterrorism.

Thanks to anthrax, our new national hobgoblin, the federal Centers for Disease Control have been in the news a lot these days. Yet a report released by the CDC late in 2001 on a very different public health menace -- urban sprawl -- has gone largely unnoticed. According to the striking findings of the report, "Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health," unless you are U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, sprawl almost certainly poses a far greater threat to your health than bioterrorism.

Full Story: Homeland Security Revisited
Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, January 9, 2002
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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