An Antidote To Sprawl?

"It is a phrase and a movement and a cause for some contention — if only over what truly constitutes "smart growth" — that in recent years has permeated the dialogue among planners, politicians, environmentalists and public health advocates, not to mention developers.It is everybody's remedy, although with varying doses and ingredients, for sprawl.... And while, like apple pie, it is hard to find anyone who opposes smart growth, some developers do raise questions: about the looseness of the definition — a legitimate concern given government support for some projects — about the balance between calls for land preservation and the incessant need for more housing, and about land-use restrictions lowering property values, even if they curtail sprawl."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan