Tuesday, May 20, 2008

It's So Old It's New


New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had an interesting column yesterday about how we might be forced to adjust to higher gasoline prices. For those of us who live in older, densely populated urban areas that have a mixture of housing, retail business, public transportation, and recreational areas all within walking distance, it's interesting to find that a neighborhood designed over a hundred years ago might be better adapted to meet the challenges of the coming years than the sprawling exurbs burgeoning up until quite recently.

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