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

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.

More Alternatives

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 by Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke
Cruise Ship Blues by Ross A. Klein
Coffee with Pleasure by Laure Waridel
In Nature’s Name by 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.

Letters

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