Challenges To Building Regional Anti-Sprawl Coalitions

Regionalists and "slow growthers" have long hoped for broad coalitions that unite voice from urban centers and suburbia. Or so the thinking goes. To the contrary, new public opinion research suggests that such broad regional coalitions against urban growth might be difficult to create... "a 2002 article in Urban Affairs Review examined public opinion data from the New York City and Los Angeles metro areas and found that suburbanites experiencing city-like problems in their own communities were more likely to support slow-growth policies, while central city residents were less supportive of such measures

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