California Tries To Get Centered
30 October 2002 - 6:00am
We Californians are conflicted. Most of our urban areas are quite dense, yet those same areas often lack a center that could be called a "place."
This is not a metaphysical question. Increasingly, it is a practical concern. As California moves into the post-suburban era, the question of how to grow is moving beyond a fight about growth and density as abstract statistics to a more fine-grained discussion about how to create more dense and compact places.
Source:
California Planning and Development Report, October 30, 2002
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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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