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...environmental concern, it is common knowledge that the use of land makes sense. But does pay? In many ways, yes, says a 278-page federal report released week. The study, first of its kind, compares the costs to society of three kinds of land use: 1) allowing communities to sprawl haphazardly across landscape, 2) erecting planned density housing clusters, and 3) mixtures of both. In all cases, the economic environmental costs are lowest for high-density developments...
Entitled The Costs of Sprawl, the report measures the costs of putting 10,000 dwelling units plus schools and public buildings on 6,000 acres of suburban land. Clustering the development rather than letting it spread would...
Pushing Money. As he campaigns from campuses in Northern California to the urban sprawl of Southern California, Jerry Brown exemplifies a great number of the trends that are so evident hi 1974. He vigorously condemns Republicans and Republicanism, which, he claims, is "a philosophy of favoritism for the few and sacrifice for the many." But Brown is no ideologue, and often he adopts traditional conservative positions...
...food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
Pete Wilson, 40. An effective opponent of unchecked urban sprawl, Wilson swept into the San Diego mayor's office in 1971 on an antidevelopment campaign that some fellow Republicans regarded lightly. Reversing his adopted city's boom-minded policies, he led the city council to impose strict curbs on San Diego's growth, raise bond issues for parks, and activate a plan to revitalize the downtown. Born in Lake Forest, Ill., Wilson attended Yale and won a law degree from the University of California. Elected to the first of three terms in the California assembly...