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Vote for De-suburbanization

28 May, 2009 | Deborah Curran

It all started when the American dream of single-family home ownership leaked into Canada. Yet who would have predicted that the desire to provide inexpensive housing and stimulate the economy after the Second World War would result in the expensive-to-maintain, agricultural-land-gobbling, ecosystem-fragmenting community form we find today outside most major centres in North America? ...

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Published in: Saving the Land that Feeds Us 34.3
Tags: urbanization, urban growth, sprawl, ecosystems

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