Farms and open space are disappearing daily to supply land for more suburban development. Sprawl and traffic have become major issues for many Americans as their daily lives are negatively impacted. Curiously, it is championed by groups as diverse as the Sierra Club and the National Association of Home Builders. At its core, smart growth is an updated rehash of planning strategies that is pro-growth while maintaining some open space. It recommends increased public transit, green zones around cities and infill of underused urban space.
Further growth is a catastrophe.
U.S. population must be stabilized soon if we hope to save America's environment. The new 100 City Sprawl Report quantifies the role of U.S. population growth in the two most recent decades of Sprawl in the 100 largest Urbanized Areas as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau. We encourage you to print and distribute this brochure to other interested parties. The brochure is approximately 1.03 mb in size, requiring about 6 minutes to download at 28.8 kbps.