exurban wasteland

A recent “Guardian story”:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1418173,00.html provides insight into what our new US “exurbs”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exurb look like to the UK:

“As US towns sprawl into the countryside, creating anonymous zones dominated by soulless malls, one of Britain’s leading historians asks if it could happen here…”

Scariest quote:

“After a closely fought referendum, Phoenix, a city of 3.5 million (roughly half the population of London), has only just agreed to a light-rail system.”

Posted by Chris in Architecture on February 20th, 2005 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.

One Response to “exurban wasteland”

  1. deb, on February 21st, 2005 at 10:00 am Said:

    So, when we run out of farmland, we’ll be fighting wars over food as well as petrol.

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