Smart Growth 29.3

Smart Growth 29.3

Editorial: What’s the Buzz?

Living It Up – Deborah Curran & Ray Tomalty
The wide range of support for smart growth in Canada promises more
livable towns and cities.

Smart Growth Principles – Linda Pim & Joel Ornoy

Three Ways We Subsidize Sprawl – Enid Slack

Don’t Touch My Property – Deborah Curran

Editorial: What’s the Buzz?

Living It Up – Deborah Curran & Ray Tomalty
The wide range of support for smart growth in Canada promises more
livable towns and cities.

Smart Growth Principles – Linda Pim & Joel Ornoy

Three Ways We Subsidize Sprawl – Enid Slack

Don’t Touch My Property – Deborah Curran

New Urbanism Stalls Without Public Transit – Nicola Ross

Quebec Village Designed for Train Commuters – Alexandra Jozsa

Hong Kong Is the Model for High Density – Richard Gilbert

Collaborative Design Yields Green Suburb – Patrick Condon & Shana Johnstone

Big Box Battle – Ben Bennett
Guelph’s citizens favour community values and smaller developments,
but they are up against powerful forces.

BC Farmland Reserve Blocks Sprawl – Shane Simpson

Moraine Boundaries Will Slow Toronto Sprawl – Debbe Crandall

Breaking the Suburban Habit – John Sewell
The right incentives for developers could transform suburban sprawl
into more affordable, diverse and healthy neighbourhoods.

Untax Buildings, Uptax Land – Frank de Jong

One Smart Card, One Less Car – Bonnie Fenton

Thinking Like a Region – Mark Hornell & Lyle Walker

Smarter Growth in a Smaller City – Christine Callihoo & Eric Kowalski

The Nearly Perfect Official Plan – David Donnelly

High Tech Hopes  – Ryan McNally
New transportation technologies may reduce vehicle emissions only
marginally.

AlterNotes
Plus Canadian News, Global News, Campaigns, Research Findings

Science Desk – Denyse O’Leary
Worm sex change; radioactive bird droppings

Letter from Vancouver – Spring Gillard
City Farmer celebrates its 25th anniversary with a squawk and a cluck.

Who’s Who – Paul Bobier
Test your knowledge of some of the best-known personalities in the
history of Canadian environmentalism.

Double Take  – Charles Dobson

Political Science – Stephen Bocking
The SARS outbreak demonstrates our vulnerability to nature’s
unpredictability.

A Cautionary Tale – Don Gayton
Single-minded efforts to manage nature are confounded by the
complexity of ecosystems.

Feds Cod Napping – Janice Harvey
Federal fisheries mismanagement demands a public inquiry.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind – Jennifer Clapp & Thomas Princen
Cross-border traffic in waste obscures the problem of consumption.

Reviews

Blue Gold – Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke
Cruise Ship Blues – Ross A. Klein
Coffee with Pleasure – Laure Waridel
In Nature’s Name – Barbara T. Gates, ed.
Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink – E. Melanie DuPuis
Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis – Forster Ndubisi
Preserving Wildlife: An International Perspective – Mark A. Michael (ed).
Hot Green Web Sites

Tribute
Alternatives remembers Gary Gallon – long-time author, advisor and
friend.

Brain Mulch – Ryan D. Kennedy
First day of school nightmares return.