McMansion blight
Clip from the film Subdivided
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May 05, 2008
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- Marquette Interchange to open early. In other news, Marquette Interchange will soon be declared too small to handle Milwaukee traffic.
- Optical illusion helps create fake speed bumps - CNN.com
- WAR and OIL: Now the truth is bubbling up
- Oil Prices: Reality still hasn't descended upon mainstream media
- "The dismal failure of Milwaukee’s civic leaders to bring the region’s public transit infrastructure up to 21st-century standards is more than just another run-of-the-mill breakdown in leadership."
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Sprawled Out bookshelf
Anthony Flint: This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
Bill Bishop: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Christopher Lasch: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
Daniel McGinn: House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes
James Howard Kunstler: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler: HOME FROM NOWHERE: REMAKING OUR EVERYDAY WORLD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Kenneth T. Jackson: Crabgrass Frontier : The Suburbanization of the United States
Peter Katz: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert E. Lang: Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (James a Johnson Metro)
Sprawled Out Links
- 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
- American Planning Association
- an affair with urban policy
- Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity
- Brand Avenue: Place, Space, & Identity
- Building Living Neighborhoods
- Burb
- Citizens Allied for Sane Highways
- Citizens Organized for Reasonable Routes Enhancing Community Traffic & Safety
- City of Franklin, Wisconsin web site
- Clusterf%$k Nation by Jim Kunstler
- Cognitive Dissidence
- Complete Streets
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- CoolTown Studios
- Coworking Community Blog
- Cyburbia
- Cyburbia: The Planning Portal
- Daily Sprawl
- Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
- Excerpt from Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream | Radical Urban Theory
- Franklin Historical Society
- Franklin Review: Friends of the Franklin Library, Inc., and Franklin Library Foundation, Inc.
- FranklinNOW.com
- Greg Palast (America's Greatest Investigative Reporter)
- James Howard Kunstler's Website
- Local Government Commission
- Metro Milwaukee Development News
- Middleton Hills, Wisconsin Homepage
- Milwaukee Connector Transit Study - Milwaukee Wisconsin
- Milwaukee: Historic Third Ward
- Milwaukee: Marquette Interchange Project
- Milwaukee: The Beerline Neighborhood
- Milwaukee: The East Side
- Modeshift: Chronicling the American Transition
- National Town Builders Association
- New Urban News
- Places Journal
- Planning Commissioners Journal
- Prospect, Colorado: A New Urbanist Town
- Racine Post Blog
- Riverwest Neighborhood Network
- RUT | Radical Urban Theory
- Shook Kelley Perception Design
- Slow Home
- Smart City Radio: Home
- Smart Growth America
- Sprawl City
- Sprawl Kills: How Blandburgs Steal Your Time, Health and Money
- Sprawl Watch
- Sprawl Watch's Wisconsin Info Page
- Sustainable Communities Network
- The American Highway Project Inc.
- The Correa Report
- The Next American City Magazine
- The Political Environment
- This Place Is… (People-centered place design)
- Urban Planning Research
- Veritas et Venustas
- Veterans For Peace :: Home
- Walkable Neighborhoods
- ||| Urbanism.org
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