A New Player On The Smart Growth Block
30 October 2002 - 10:00am
Unions weigh in to beat sprawl: "After a day of looking at [sprawl], some of us began to think that sprawl is one giant anti-union conspiracy."
Now another influential constituency — organized labor — is starting to weigh in for Smart Growth and against suburban sprawl. The issue is forging new alliances in several regions and has the potential to build a broad new progressive coalition from the bottom up.
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Unions Weigh in to Beat Back
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Michigan Land Use Institute, October 27, 2002
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