Sustainable Cities and Campus Communities: Envision and Planning Sustainable Communities
Impetus for change in suburban growth patterns is growing. A grassroots interest in change has been slowly building as more people become dissatisfied with existence in the typical modern city. Patterns in home-buying, trends in real estate values, and public surveys show that a growing number of people are interested in alternatives to "traditional" suburban housing tracts (ESI Corp 1995, Guillory 1998, Lerner and Poole 1999). The literature in architecture and planning now discusses how to create built environments that enhance people's lives while protecting the natural environment. And solid research has uncovered economic drawbacks to sprawl and even to growth in general – as well as positive economic benefits for open space.
