When post-World War II suburbs were designed, the idea was to improve quality of life — give people more space to breathe at affordable prices, compared to cities (viewed as too congested and noisy), while still giving them reasonably easy access to things like shopping.
But half a century later, we discovering that suburban sprawl isn’t all [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Sprawl and quality of life
October 13, 2008Project aims to turn Mass Ave into ‘great pedestrian-friendly street’
October 3, 2008Arlington has received state and federal funding to help turn its portion of Massachusetts Avenue “from a transportation corridor to one of Arlington’s great pedestrian-friendly streets,” according to the project Web site.
The idea is to better balance the needs of walkers, cyclists and users of mass transit with automobiles. As opposed to the all-too-usual suburban [...]
