Burning Suburbia

The debate over suburban sprawl has taken a dangerous turn.

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January 11, 2001, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[T]he Long Island Builders Institute, ...is offering a $10,000 reward forinformation on a spate of arson directed against new residential-construction projects-three incidents in the monthof December...[t]he idea...was to dramatize the sprawl issue while causing 'as much economic damage to the developers as possible.'"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Burning Suburbia

Monday, January 15, 2001 in Newsweek

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