Christopher Ives

The arguments for urban densification and urban sprawl both have merit and neither is absolutely right. Flickr/t3rmin4t0r

Growing out versus filling in: how about we all grow up?

It’s a debate that’s been raging for decades and dominates academic and popular urban planning discourse: urban sprawl versus urban densification. Is it better to increase density or to expand at the edges…

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