Sprawl

Putnam on America’s “big triangles”

In Development, Infrastructure, Sprawl on 19 October 2007 with no comments

Robert Putnam reduces sprawl to simple geometry. Brilliant:
It’s less clear where home is; I mean, basically as Americans we live our lives in big triangles. One point of the triangle is where we sleep, one point is where we shop, and one point is where we work. And our American triangle has gotten much larger.
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Sprawl in Melbourne

In Development, Melbourne, Planning, Sprawl on 19 October 2007 with no comments

Melbourne is sprawling faster than its Melbourne 2030 comprehensive plan allows.
The Department of Planning and Community Development yesterday released the first part of its review of Melbourne 2030.
The review, completed using the figures from the 2006 census and other sources, argued that 48.3 per cent of new housing built in Melbourne was on “greenfield” sites [...]