Sustainable cities: smart growth is newly fashionable. But what will it take to turn fashion into national policy?(SPECIAL REPORT: EMERALD CITIES)
American Prospect, The, January, 2007 by Peirce, Neal
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A "GREEN REVOLUTION" IS BURGEONING IN America's cities and towns.
And it's a surprise. Six years ago, as we exited an economically exuberant but perilously polluting 20th century, the idea would have seemed chimerical. True, by the 1990s we'd begun to talk about community and global sustainability; President Clinton even appointed a White House council on the topic. But the conversation proved to be a tad ahead of its time. It exhibited little of the intensity with which the green ideal is today being talked up, and in some places, truly implemented.
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