On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:10:04AM +0530, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
> The Christian Science Monitor
>
> from the October 03, 2006 edition
>
> How America grows: A tale of two cities
> Gilbert, Ariz., and Portland, Ore., have approached expansion in two
> very different ways.
>
> By Brad Knickerbocker and Daniel B. Wood | Staff writers of The
> Christian Science Monitor
> PORTLAND, ORE., AND GILBERT, ARIZ. – As US population grows inexorably
> toward 300 million, there are two visions for the future of American
> towns and cities. Although very different, each seeks to create a
> sense of community, a sense of place where none existed before.
>
> One focuses on downtown areas - often run-down, sometimes left as
> polluted industrial "brownfields." This new kind of urban renewal is
> seen in places like the trendy Pearl district in Portland, Ore.
>
> The other vision - the most dominant one - is found among the
> tile-roofed homes mushrooming outward from the nation's
> fastest-growing city, Gilbert, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb. As recently as
> 1970, there were fewer than 2,000 people in this former agricultural
> town once called the "Hay Capital of the World." Today, the population
> is some 180,000; it's projected to peak above 300,000.
>
> Full at:
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1003/p01s02-ussc.html
>
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