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Smart Growth: From Sprawl to Sustainability

Author: John Reeds


1. Smart Growth rejects urban sprawl and car dependency and promotes
compact, functional towns and cities, the re-growth of communities and an
emphasis on rail-based transit Systems.
2. Smart Growth emphasizes use of communities existing infrastructure and
resources and conserves open spaces and urban fringes
3. Smart Growth reduces dependence o road transport and increases
opportunities for walking, cycling and public transport. Towns, cities and
villages should be pedestrian-friendly and rail-accessible.
4. Smart Growth believes our countryside and open space is a precious
environmental, social and economic resource. It should be protected and
husbanded if we are to move towards a more sustainable society.
5. Smart Growth encourages communities to develop their own identity and
vision, respecting their cultural and architectural heritage. It supports humanscale development and opposes large, monolithic developments, out of town
retailing and big box architecture.
6. Smart Growth supports a sensible mix of land uses to suit communities, which
meets their daily needs.
7. Smart Growth supports mixed-income, mixed-age, inclusive communities that
take responsibility for their own development. Local economies should be
developed to make them more self supporting.
8. Smart Growth supports quality living for people of all income groups, ages and
needs. We want human-scale development at appropriate densities to support
sustainable transportation and local facilities.
9. For communities to successfully implement Smart Growth they must ensure
all three sectors of the economy- public, private and community- function
successfully and sustainably.

Reeds, J. (2011). Chapter 1. In Smart Growth: From Sprawl to


Sustainability (Vol. 1, p. 539). United Kingdom: Green Books Foxhole,
Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EB.
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Author: Peter Block
1. One aspect of fragmentation is the gasps between sectors of our cities and
neighborhoods; businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, and
government operate mostly in their own worlds.Parallel effort added
together does not make a community.
2. It is dividedness that make it so difficult to create a more positive or
alternative future- especially in a culture that is more interested in
individuality and independence than in interdependence.
3. A communitys well being simply had to do with the quality of the
relationships, the cohesion that exists among its citizens.

4. The essential work is to build social fabric, both for its own sake and to enable
chosen accountability among citizens.

Block, P. (2008). Chapter 1. In Community: The structure of belonging (Vol.


1, p. 351). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
Makeshift Metropolis
Author: Witold Rybczynski
1. We want an exciting big city when we are young. Beginning a career, and
looking for a mate; a dispersed small city close to nature when we are raising a
family; a culture rich downtown when we are empty nesters; and a walkable
small city in a warm climate when we retire.
2. Extremely dense vertical cities conserve more energy and resources, If
humans want to significantly reduce their carbon footprints, they will have to
consider densification.

Rybczynski, W. (2010). Chapter 1. In Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About


Cities (Vol. 1, p. 298). New York City: A Division of Simon & Schuster.
Sprawl: A Compact History
Author: Robert Bruegmann
1. Sprawl is a recent and peculiarly American phenomenon caused by specific
technological innovations like automobile and by government policies like
single use zoning.
2. Sprawl is caused by the segregation by income level, race and ethnicity,
segregation of immigrants and poorer residents by skin color, religion.
3. Many individuals have claimed that sprawl is a logical result of capitalism
because this kind of economic system induces buyers and sellers to act in ways
to further their own good even at the expense of their neighbors or the
common good.
4. Government as a cause.

Bruegmann, R. (2005). Chapter 1. In Sprawl: A Compact History (Vol. 1, p.


330). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,, London.
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in your City
Author: Brad Feld
1. The government and economic social status problem, Its one of the key
challenges of a hierarchical organizational model, one in which the most
powerful people are the ones at the top of the hierarchy.

Feld, B. (2012). Chapter Six: Classical Problems. In Startup Communities:


Building An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in your City (Vol. 1, p. 297).
Haboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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