Andrew’s Reviews > Sprawl: A Compact History > Status Update

Learning about anti-sprawl efforts in Portland. Probably the most effective in the United States.

This is key: “the very neighborhood that one individual targets as sprawl is another family’s much loved community. Very few people believe that they themselves live in sprawl. Sprawl is where other people live, particularly people with less taste and good sense than themselves. Much anti-sprawl activism is based on a desire to reform other people’s lives.”

He’s challenging a lot of anti-sprawl assumptions that have been in the air we breathe for years.