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Smart Growth, and Then What? by Rick Shea
Smart growth advocates seem to have gone through quite a process of change over the years. I clearly recall the old cries of “grow up, not out,” and other slogans from early advocates, who seemed bent...
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“Making Orlando Bloom Again” by Rick Shea
The following paragraph is from a recent Mike Thomas column in the “Orlando Sentinel.” Lesley Blackner and Ross Burnaman grew frustrated fighting developers, literally house by house, in local zoning...
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A Peak at our Future? by Rick Shea
The following quotation is from today’s Yahoo financial page (January 14, 2010): MONTREAL (AFP) – Gold production will continue to fall, despite a brief boost in 2009 and soaring prices, as deposits...
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Walking erectly toward the next stone age? by Rick Shea
Richard Duncan proposed the “Olduvai Theory” in 1989 at an engineering conference. In essence, Duncan proposed that our energy-intensive industrial society will only have a lifespan of approximately...
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Smart growth = unaffordable housing? by Rick Shea
A recent study of 272 metropolitan areas from around the world concludes that urban consolidation policies (“smart” growth, compact development, and so on) make housing unaffordable. In fact, according...
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“smart” growth for dummies – by Rick Shea
The Demographia study mentioned in an earlier article is part of the backlash against, and growing criticism of, “smart” growth. One of the authors of that study, Dr. Tony Recsei, also wrote the...
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Where’s the democratic process? by Rick Shea
I see from the announcement in yesterday’s Observer (February 24, 2010) that Salmon Arm council has chosen to follow many other councils in B.C. and invoke the Alternative Approval Process (AAP) in...
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Letter to the new mayor and council by Rick Shea
November 30, 2011 Dear Mayor Cooper and Council: GDP and GNP are used by politicians and economists as a measure of the well-being of various countries, but GDP was never intended to be used in this...
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Letter to the new mayor and council by Rick Shea
November 30, 2011 Dear Mayor Cooper and Council: GDP and GNP are used by politicians and economists as a measure of the well-being of various countries, but GDP was never intended to be used in this...
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