Sprawl and Immigration

Paul Krugman sees political storms ahead concerning immigration.

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May 23, 2001, 2:00 PM PDT

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

"Population growth is only a secondary problem; medium sized metropolitan areas like Atlanta and Houston have mismanaged their development so completely that they have worse traffic than metropolitan New York.Population growth is only a secondary contributing factor to a disastrous pattern of land use driven by skewed incentives that encourage people to spread out in a low density sprawl that, in turn, forces them to spend more and more time in their cars."

Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg

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