Research and Publications - Good Government & Responsible Development

Building Better II

A Guide to America’s Best New Development Projects
CLEAN WATER EDITION
2006

Stormwater runoff and sewage overflows
are growing threats to the health of our
water. Across the country sprawling
developments are generating huge amounts of
sewage and stormwater runoff. Land that used
to absorb rain is being paved over, creating
more runoff than treatment systems can handle.
The end result is that more untreated or poorly

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Building Better

A Guide to America’s Best New Development Projects
2005

Curbing Sprawl, Building Healthy Communities

Much of the development in the United States
today is sprawling, low density, car-dependent “bigbox”
or “strip-mall” construction, which produces
more and more traffic and harms our land, air, and
water. The Sierra Club believes there is a better way
to build, and in doing so, to produce healthy

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No Justice, No Growth: How Los Angeles is making big-time developers create decent jobs.

By Harold Meyerson

The American Prospect, October 22, 2006
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=no_justice_no_growth

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