A New Player On The Smart Growth Block

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."

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October 30, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

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.

Thanks to Keith Schneider

FULL STORY: Unions Weigh in to Beat Back

Sunday, October 27, 2002 in Michigan Land Use Institute

Government / Politics Michigan

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