2003-03-23 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- California's financial crisis threatens to end a state-funded program that eases the tax burden of farmers while keeping city sprawl from springing up near ...

Development: Water that would seep into soil now runs off artificial surfaces and is polluted. The building industry criticizes the report.

Suburban sprawl can be ugly on the ground, but aerial photographs demonstrate its beauty, and why it’s inherently unsustainable. The series of photographs aims to “make sprawl a very aesthetic ...

Anti-sprawl leaders, ... one can begin to see ways the two currently hostile sides ultimately might find some common ground. Sam Staley is a case in point. On the one hand, ...

DURING the past several years, three challenges have characterized the emerging tale of a new California: the state's rapidly changing demographics, widening inequalities by race and region and a ...

We're seeing some things on the ground now," says Cox. Like Village Green, California. It's affordable, close to mass transit, and is the largest solar powered housing community in southern ...

According to critics of sprawl—uniformly seen in some quarters as an unmitigated disaster, an evil to be expunged—this means that Atlanta, like other fast-growing sprawling cities such as ...

The Capital of Sprawl Gets a Radically Car-Free Neighborhood On an empty lot near Phoenix, perhaps the most auto-addicted city in America, a start-up is betting $170 million on a more walkable future.

And Nevada is ground zero for figuring it out. ... He was quick to answer: The climate crisis was No. 1, followed by housing sprawl, solar development and off-road vehicles.

Hallowed Ground or Sprawl? This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...