Smart growth is a compendium of strategies that is pro-growth while maintaining a bit of open space. It recommends increased public transit, green zones around cities and infill of the urban underused space. People are urged to embrace highly increased housing densities. It is championed by groups as apparently diverse as the Sierra Club and the National Association of Home Builders.
Further growth is a catastrophe.
The Golden State has rapidly lost its qualities of unique natural beauty due to irresponsible immigration-driven population growth. The quality of life for California residents has declined. All the while we are assured by real estate robber barons that endless growth is wonderful. It is one thing to talk about a population explosion in India, where the bicycle is the standard of personal transport. But when that level of density is superimposed on an automobile-dependent state, skyrocketing highway congestion makes the simplest activities increasingly frustrating.