Some questionable stats in today's New York Times...

curtiss_leung at ibi.com curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Mon Feb 22 11:26:17 PST 1999


All:

I came across some statistics on land development today's NY Times

that must be bogus. In a column about overdevelopment, John Tierney

cites a " Samuel R. Staley, an urban economist who has done a study on

sprawl for the Reason Public Policy Institute," as the source of these

figures:

-- in 1992, 95.3 of American land was undeveloped

-- today, 95.1 of American land is undeveloped

Does anyone know a source for other figures? And does anyone have any

background on Staley or the Reason Public Policy Institute, e.g., is

it linked to Reason magazine?

Thanks,

--

Curtiss



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