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Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Okay, so I’m a sucker for structuralist diagrams and virtuous/vicious cycles. “Where We Want To Be,” a new paper by Todd Litman/VTPI features this handy, oh so self reinforcing Cycle of Automobile Dependency and Sprawl:

Cycle of Automobile Dependence

And that, in a nutshell, is the machinery that continues to drive sprawl. (My favorite is “degraded cities.” Maybe a PPT illustrating each step could be useful.)

(h/t Kaid)

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2 Comments leave one →
  1. K.Monahan permalink
    Friday, 23 October 2009 9:02

    I don’t see any mention of “cheap oil”.

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