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GreatCity.org article from February’s The AIA- Seattle Architect.

I’m still having a hard-time wrapping my head around Great City’s agenda. I like their focus on building green, preserving urban open space and building out transit, but I think they confuse the sustainability of Seattle’s urban single family neighborhoods (many little houses on small lots clustered around neighborhood business districts)  with the sprawl of our outlying suburbs. And this confusion is being used by some to justify incompatible infill development which is actually hurting that neighborhood sustainability.

 (Copy of the article) 

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2 comments

1 dan { 03.07.08 at 10:00 pm }

Greg, could you give some examples of what you feel is incompatible infill development that is hurting neighborhood sustainability?

2 Greg { 03.09.08 at 1:15 pm }

one good example of this kind of development can be found in Pinehurst. The Stranger writes about it here: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=496310 and I wrote about it here; http://smarterneighbors.com/2008/01/30/burn-pinehurst-once-shame-on-you-burn-them-again-hmmmit-actually-might-not-happen-again/

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