PNAS has a paper http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/104/52/20672 the abstract claims:
> "These findings are in contrast to the results of Burchfield *et al.* , > who conclude that the extent of sprawl remained roughly unchanged in the > Unites States between 1976 and 1992. As demonstrated here, both the data > and pattern measure used in their study are systematically biased against > recording low-density residential development, the very land use that we > find is most strongly associated with fragmentation. " > In a word, [since you might not have access to that paper]: lots of planners and zoning boards are being fed a rosier picture than is really the case for the land and its carrying capacity. -- freedom is not more important than fairness and much easier to fake. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
