Former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening says that in some ways the economic downturn in the U.S. has been a good thing because it gave the state a chance to reevaluate development patterns.
Ex-Gov. Glendening spoke about the effect of rising gas prices, and the unnoticed added cost of transportation that comes from moving farther out from the city's core.
"Some people "hate sprawl and hate density and they're fighting against both of them. When you think about it for a moment, that's not going to work," Glendening said. As it is, governments have done a "horrible job with density in American cities, with high-rises surrounded by empty open space, which feels unsafe and unwelcoming," he added, showing a diagram of a development in Detroit featuring widely spaced skyscrapers with nothing between them."
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