Smart Growth News- April 13, 2012

National House GOP hopes to revive Keystone fight with tie to highway bill extension The Hill- April 12, 2012 House Republican leadership will take another crack at forcing approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on legislation extending federal transportation funding for another 90 days. SoCal's new sustainability strategy is impressive step forward Natural Resources Defense Council Blog- April 13, 2012 We expect forward-looking sustainability planning from places like Portland, Vancouver and Copenhagen. Los Angeles? Not so much. Southern California is a region much better known for environmental problems than solutions, which is precisely why its new, 25-year Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted unanimously last week by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), is so significant. Hate Freeways? You Aren’t Doing Your City Any Favors Bloomberg- April 11, 2012 A growing literature trumpets the news that cities around the world are tearing down freeways. Population Growth Leads to Greater Economic Growth Rustwire- April 12, 2012 Do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs? Is the answer to a city’s economic problems as simple as attracting new people and growing your population? Is this a case of “If you build it, they will come” or does it get a little more complex than this. The New England states and rustbelt region have been hurting from next to stagnant population growth. Rhode Island and Michigan even have negative population growth. Reversing a trend like this takes a multiplicity of extraneous factors that encompass all aspects of sociology and economics.

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