Caltrans Asphalt Addiction Continues
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This time in Eastern Contra Costa, with plans to build a new highway, State Route 239.
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Sprawl
The Urbanists’ Dilemma
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Are suburbs and small towns poised to make a comeback thanks to COVID 19?
What Drives the Google Bus?
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Forget measuring carbon emissions and counting blocked Muni buses. The real meaning of the Google bus is the deeper illness it reveals – a co-dependent relationship in which sprawl and gentrification reinforce each other. Tech companies don’t run buses just to please their city-loving engineers. Silicon Valley land use makes them do it. The Valley’s […]
Paul Krugman Links Sprawl to Persistent Social Inequality
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Is sprawl holding back social mobility in America? Paul Krugman didn’t mince words yesterday in a follow-up to a post he wrote soon after the Detroit bankruptcy was announced. In that initial blog post, he compared Detroit to Pittsburgh and concluded that it wasn’t just the loss of manufacturing jobs that hurt Detroit — it was […]
The Strain of Job Sprawl on Two-Income Households
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When Mark Lampert was a kid, his mom stayed home with him and his brothers. His dad was out the door by 4:30 every morning, driving to the commuter lot in their distant Houston suburb to take the bus in to the city for work. He had friends whose parents both worked, and when those […]
The Incredible Shrinking Megastore: Retailers Think Outside the Big Box
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They lord over empty parking lots in Hazard, Kentucky; Twinsburg, Ohio; and Lewiston, Washington like the ruins of a lost civilization. Vacant Walmart stores are slowly decomposing in more and more American towns these days. More than 100 of them have been memorialized as part of the group Flickr pool known smugly as “They Sold […]