Favorable environment is seen for p...

Favorable environment is seen for progres in curbing urban sprawl

Nearly each resident of a metropolitan area has experienced the worsening of "urban sprawl" and its allied ills of traffic congestion, vanishing lay open space and inadequate infrastructure.

Can stakeholders with various points of view about to what extent to address the issue achieve sufficient consensus to bring to maturity responses that will help to direction sprawl? A climate now exists to make that possible, a Chicago-area land planner said in a late address to a meeting of the Construction Writers Association.