Way back when I was on a steering committee, then the first board of directors, of a non-profit called 1000 Friends of Wisconsin. It was the primary proponent of "Smart Growth" in Wisconsin. Smart Growth went mainstream in land use planning since the old days.
With all we have learned since the early 1990's i guess i have kind of lost track of where Smart Growth thinking is at. When it was being done via comprehensive planning a few years back in my county, I got a chance to look it over.
Given the sometimes hostile reaction by realtors and the paranoid reaction of the various folks from the "black helicopter" contingent of the property rights crowd, I found the whole thing kind of amusing. I mean wow, how Dr. Strangelove. Looking at it from the property rights view and trying to be reasonable, Smart Growth reminded me of the description in the first entry about Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It read; "Mostly Harmless".
I mean, it does not really address the needs of preserving natural capital and natural capital services, does it? It seemed to me to essentially be an enshrinement of the upper-middleclass aesthetics.
Anyway, I should read this. See where it is at in 2013.
Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development EPA 02/2013
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/equitable-dev/equitable-development-report-508-011713b.pdf
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