[SustainableTompkins] sprawl is underestimated

[George Adams]

PNAS has a paper
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/104/52/20672
the abstract claims:

> "These findings are in contrast to the results of Burchfield *et al.* ,
> who conclude that the extent of sprawl remained roughly unchanged in the
> Unites States between 1976 and 1992. As demonstrated here, both the data
> and pattern measure used in their study are systematically biased against
> recording low-density residential development, the very land use that we
> find is most strongly associated with fragmentation. "
>

In a word, [since you might not have access to that paper]: lots of planners
and zoning boards are being fed a rosier picture than is really the case for
the land and its carrying capacity.
-- 
freedom is not more important than fairness and much easier to fake.