Already 61,000 acres have burned in Florida's Mallory Swamp and recent wildfires are threatening Nevada, New Mexico, and California. Much of Atlanta's sprawl is fueled by cars and highways. Sprawl supports wasteful energy consumption associated with commuting from distant suburban subdivisions. Sprawl is not new. However, the undesirable by-products of sprawl development can be readily seen and felt by suburban, central city, and rural residents.
Sprawl is costly and ordinary citizens are paying the bill.
The conference will attract over 1,000 leading professionals in the fields of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture and development, as well as citizen activists, elected officials and students. The Global Citizen Donella Meadows, Pulitzer Prize nominated syndicated columnist and author of The Global Citizen , died February 20, 2001. This Earthday she is being remembered at events from San Francisco to New Hampshire. The pattern of random, unplanned growth commonly known as 'sprawl' is a pervasive feature of the American landscape. While it has become the most common form of development surrounding cities and suburbs, hardly anyone would describe it as ideal.