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Page 32 - America are the stirrings of a new movement of citizens acting together to solve community problems.
Page 33 - ... out. They are questioning the social costs of the mismatch between new employment locations in the suburbs and the available workforce in the city. They are questioning the wisdom of abandoning brownfields in older communities, eating up...
Page 35 - Sprawl eats up our open space. It creates traffic jams that boggle the mind and pollute the air. Sprawl can make one feel downright claustrophobic about our future.
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Page 10 - The few green havens that are public parks were not to be lost unless there were truly unusual factors present in a particular case or the cost or community disruption resulting from alternative routes reached extraordinary magnitudes.
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Page 34 - And the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County, and the state of Missouri are using their new transit system, Metrolink, as a potential focus for new development.