Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco

[David Morris]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/10/the-green-case-for-cities/307661/
"Putting solar panels on the roofs doesn’t change the essential fact that
by any sensible measure, spread-out, low-rise buildings, with more
foundations, walls, and roofs, have a larger carbon footprint than a
high-rise office tower—even when the high-rise has no green features at all.
[...]
A Thoreau-like existence in the great outdoors isn’t green. Density is
green.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/30970
Density has become a highly charged topic in development today. In many
communities, the news of a potential project that proposes to increase the
number of dwelling units per acre can unleash an uproar by neighbors. This
is unfortunate as density is a tool-arguably the most powerful one
controlled by a municipality-to create a more sustainable city while at the
same time helping to preserve agricultural land and the open space beyond
its borders. Furthermore, strategic densification offers positive benefits
far beyond an individual metropolitan area: after all, given the continued
growth in world population and the continued migration of people to cities
across the globe, the densification of all urban settlements-when done
properly-can play a critical role in improving the health of the planet as
a whole.



On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> My, you really are trying to lather on the insults, David. Please calm
>> down. Then show me some information that might change my mind.
>
>
> Fat chance that could ever happen.  You clearly don't want to know
> anything but your own opinions.
>
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