Sprawl Notes

A bunch of stories about urban sprawl that deserve attention:

1. If you live in Louisville, Miami, or Salt Lake City, you suffer the nation’s highest urban heat island effects.

2. Even in liberal California, a meaningful state climate bill had to sacrifice the goal to reduce the state’s gasoline consumption in order to pass. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is going to get in the way of Americans love to drive.

3. What will traffic look like in the Washington DC area by 2040 with expected population growth? It will suck.

4. Chinese sprawl, 1988 and 2015. Dang.

5. At least one area of sensitive habitat in the Bay Area is protected from a housing development for now at least.