Thursday, October 30, 2008
News Mother Jones discusses smart growth with David Goldberg
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Mother Jones has posted an interesting chat with David Goldberg, communications director of Smart Growth America. Goldberg, a Decatur resident and former AJC editorial board member, talks with assistant editor Jen Phillips about the challenges — and opportunities — communities face as they try to become more walkable and less car-centric. He also gives a long summary on what Atlanta's doing right after decades of doing wrong.
From the interview:
There's some really disturbing trends here: We're having a difficult time revitalizing places that are being abandoned, while we go out to these greenfields and build these new places, wasting a lot of money on extending infrastructure all over the place, and we're consigning people to life in a car and now high gas prices.So what do we do about that?
It's worth the time to give the discussion a look if you want to know the answer. Or if you wanted a comprehensive and easy-to-read background on how smart growth concepts work.
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