Comments on: The Daily Dig: ‘Infrastructure As Branding Opportunity’ Edition

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:41:54 +0000

The BRT line in Cleveland is named after two hospitals that fall along its route; and one is a globally respected hospital, at that.

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Google Earth Typography | dv8-designs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:41:32 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:43:23 +0000

Richard -
Familiar with the site.

2007’s oil price spike is I think going to be seen as the long term high water mark for sprawl in this country. So this finding is not all that surprising to me. What would be interesting is to see–using the exact same methodology–whether trends have started to reverse since then.

Using county lines is not exactly an ideal method though, of course.

By: Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:01:36 +0000

Might want to take a critical look at whatever is posted at New Geography. It is a pro-sprawl site.

“As of 2007, anyway, the US was continuing to suburbanize–exurbanize, more accurately–at a fast clip. Outlying counties grew nearly twice as fast as central ones since 2000.”

Problem is they don’t provide the actual numbers. I suspect outlying counties are “growing faster” than central ones simply because more people already live in the central ones so even with the same number of people moving to the central ones, the rate of grow would be higher for the outlying. A fast rate of growth is typically a symptom of a small denominator. They should actually report the actual numbers instead of percentages.