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Discussion with Manager of City of Sparks Current Planning
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Karen Melby, Manager of Current Planning with the City of Sparks, Reno, NV discusses the current state of our built environment on both a national and local level, as well as ways that we as a nation might be able to change the way planning decisions are made as well as our attitudes as a whole society can be changed in order to move us towards more sustainable and less auto-dependent development.
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
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By Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH. from Public Health Reports, May-June 2002, Volume 117M
This article presents a brief history of the suburb in America, and then goes on to discuss the adverse implications such settlements have for public health.
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Return soon! As more various articles, links to websites and bibliography are soon to come.
Contributions
If you have written any articles dealing with the subjects of Urban Geography, Sociology, Urban Planning
and/or Alternative Energy Development, please submit in PDF to xtine@charter.net
Also, please send links to any websites that deal with this topic, and or book titles. I look forward to all of your contributions!