Category: Smart Growth

Brownfield Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl, by Syd Gernstein

Project 21 Commentary /
As concern over "urban sprawl" intensifies, the Bush Administration is coming to the rescue by making it easier to revitalize decaying city infrastructures. This will both lessen the need for cities to expand and create new jobs and new sources ...
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Earth Day 2002 Fact Sheet: Myths and Facts About the Environment

Myth: The science on global warming is sound. CNN reported that a National Academy of Sciences report in 2001 represented "a unanimous decision that global warming is real, is getting worse and is due to man. There is no wiggle ...
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Devolution to the States is Working for Welfare; It Can Work for Public Lands, by Gretchen Randall

National Policy Analysis #340 /
It has jurisdiction over a vast empire of historic sites. It has thousands of employees. It controls vast expanses of prairie. It manages hundreds of buildings. Yet it has no inventory of what it actually owns, has a backlog of ...
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Suburban Snob Politics Fuels “Smart Growth” Land-Use Movement, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #312 /
The national movement to combat the alleged ills of urban sprawl is guilty of false advertising. Proponents of anti-sprawl policies, often termed "smart growth" policies, portray smart growth as an environmentally-sensitive campaign to protect communities against the alleged ravages of ...
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Nature, Not Man, is Responsible for West Coast Salmon Decline, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #254 /
On March 16 1999, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Marine and Fisheries Service (NMFS) added nine populations of West Coast salmon to the endangered species list, bringing the total number of federally-protected salmon subspecies to 24. The recent designations are ...
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The Campaign Against Urban Sprawl: Declaring War on the American Dream, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #239 /
From the White House to Main Street, urban sprawl is the latest environmental crisis vexing America. The Clinton Administration and environmentalists warn that urban sprawl, or unregulated suburban development, undermines our quality of life. They argue that urban sprawl exacerbates ...
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Clinton’s Urban Sprawl Program Threatens Freedom and the Environment

National Policy Analysis #231 /
What percentage of U.S. land do you think has been developed? 50%? 25%? 10%? Answer: Less than 5%. Yet the Clinton Administration believes that taxpayers must pay for a multi-billion dollar land acquisition program aimed at curbing "urban sprawl" - ...
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Rural Sprawl Outpaces Urban Sprawl

On January 11, 1999, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the Administration's $10 billion program to stop urban sprawl by preserving open space and curbing suburbs. But urban sprawl isn't the problem the Vice President claims it is, with land set ...
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What Scriptures Tell Us About Environmental Stewardship, by Samuel Casey Carter

National Policy Analysis #199 /
Now that secular liberalism has all but driven orthodox religion out of public life, it should come as no surprise that heterodox spirituality has become the latest battering ram of the left. In a time when the Bible has been ...
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