The Congress for New Urbanism, commissioned by a group called CEOs for Cities, released the results of a study on how New Urbanist growth strategies pays off economic dividends. If you watch the video, try your best to ignore the awful music, they apparently spent all their money on the research itself.
The study found that the recent push for growth into rural areas has had disastrous results which we've explored here and here. Perhaps most importantly, it finds that returning to development in cities over exurbs, is the key ingredient to solving any number of our nation's most pressing problems. Haven't we all been searching for a silver bullet for climate change, lack of affordable housing, obesity, and excessive personal and public debt?
