“A Tale of Two Exurbs”

by Will on May 7, 2009

One downside to Republicans’ lack of interest in “new ideas” is that they’ve effectively ceded policy discussions on a host of emerging issues to liberals, which is presumably why this fascinating piece on exurban sprawl has found a home at The American Prospect. Paging the gang at Plumb Lines . . .

Tagged as: Republicans, sprawl

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1 Mike at The Big Stick May 7, 2009 at 7:12 am

The esteemed Joel Kotkin and the good folks are doing a lot of good work on these issues over at Newgeography.com and they come at it from a right-of-center perspective. I believe Ross Douthat is a fan as well.

2 Will May 7, 2009 at 7:15 am

Thanks for the tip, Mike.

3 Cascadian May 7, 2009 at 7:50 am

Seems they have a different take at the Frontporch. I just ruined my morning coffee with it. It seems the problem is all the good city planners have moved to the coasts.

No reason not to share:
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=3038

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