{"id":213415617,"date":"2011-10-07T02:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213415617"},"modified":"2011-10-07T02:06:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:06:57","slug":"new-urbanists-no-economic-recovery-without-smart-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213415617","title":{"rendered":"New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post highlighting Streets Blog article relates to our featured article asking for more bicycle infrastructure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20111004135137190\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20111004135137190<\/a><br \/>\nHighlights:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cWhat were seeing right now is an inability to look at how we live and how it relates to our problems, and financial problems,\u201d said Kunstler Tuesday during a speaking engagement with the Congress for the New Urbanism. \u201cProduction homebuilders, mortgage lenders, real estate agents, they are all sitting back now waiting for the, quote, bottom of the housing market to come with the expectation that things will go back to the way they were in 2005.\u201d<br \/>\nBut despite massive government expenditures to restart the old economic engine driven by suburban homebuilding, recovery is elusive, Kunstler said. The author of \u201cThe Geography of Nowhere\u201d and \u201cThe Long Emergency\u201d argues that suburbanization has been a multi-decade American experiment, and a failed one.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn its new booklet Curbside Chat, Strong Towns asserts that since the 1970s, the suburban growth that powered America\u2019s economy operated much like a Ponzi scheme. In towns across the country, politicians traded the short-term payoffs of sprawling development \u2014 namely increased taxes \u2014 for long-term maintenance obligations that are just now coming due. And they\u2019re coming up short.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cOur problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth; Our problem is sixty years of unproductive growth,\u201d said Marohn. \u201cThe American pattern of development does not create real wealth; it creates the illusion of wealth. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed and with it the prosperity we have come to take for granted.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cWe now have to do things differently.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/10\/06\/new-urbanists-no-economic-recovery-without-smart-growth\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/10\/06\/new-urbanists-no-economic-recovery-without-smart-growth\/<\/a>oldId.20111007020657171<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post highlighting Streets Blog article relates to our featured article asking for more bicycle infrastructure. https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20111004135137190 Highlights: &#8230; \u201cWhat were seeing right now is an inability to look at how we live and how it relates to our problems, and financial problems,\u201d said Kunstler Tuesday during a speaking engagement with the Congress for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213415617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213415617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213415617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213415617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213415617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213415617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213415617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213415617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}