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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Smart growth is really bad for society. But it's great for developers[/quote]

1) focusing development where there is infrastructure is good for the environment - it reduces dependence on driving cars and save valuable green space in the exurbs and rural areas
2) more density means more opportunity for housing where the jobs are

So....how is it bad for society?[/quote]

More density creates LESS green space in cities.  It only creates traffic, overcrowded classrooms and strained infrastructure. It's good for developers who want to make more money. The smart growth movement is grasstop political corruption. [/quote]

If you have the same number of people, but they're housed more densely, then there's more undeveloped (aka "green") space. The opposite of density is sprawl. [/quote]

Really? I can't tell if you are being naive or sarcastic. The first thing to go is green space. Buildings get bigger, sky gets blocked, green space gets turned into concrete and asphalt.  More density is horrible for the already stressed urban environment.  I don't know why people think it's a good thing to pile more and more people into smaller and smaller spaces. It's the opposite of healthy. Maybe more density for suburban areas can work. But DC, along with every other city in the U.S., is already struggling with its current infrastructure.[/quote]

You're not getting at all what I'm saying. Let's put it into numbers. DC currently has about 700,000 residents and is just under 70 square miles, so it's density is about 10,000 residents per square mile. Dozens of world cities have densities over 40,000 per square mile. If the populated parts of DC had that density only a quarter of the city would need to be inhabited, the other three quarters could be green space. That would be much better for the environment. [/quote]

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