Just some more reference re sprawl for Eban and others; apologies for any repeats. 1)James Howard Kunstler, <The Geography of Nowhere>, 1993 2)(author's name I'm blocking!) <Crabgrass Frontier>, 1985 3)The Third Regional Plan for New York, just out from the Regional Plan Association in NYC, is a call for massive investments in mass transit, etc. Probably of interest. 4)There is a growing literature from feminist-minded writers addressing the relationship between built environment and the reinforcement of gender norms. Leslie Wiesman's <Discrimination by Design> and several things written by Dolores Hayden are good places to start but there's much more than that too. I like the argument in that it implies to achieve a built environment not inherently presupposed on the notion that one person goes to work and the other stays home would require a democratic planning capacity at the local level, and hence probably also community ownership of city land. I'd be interested in any luck you may have Eban in estimating costs. We've been trying for some time to devise a way to estimate the costs of "thrown-away cities" (i.e. Akron decays, the infrastructure built up over decades rots, people move, and in the meantime say Tuscon is rapidly growing and requires major new infrastructural investments to accomodate the migrants who are following the jobs) with not a great deal of success. cheers, Thad Williamson National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives/ Institute for Policy Studies Washington, DC
