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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Growth of Sprawl
Jun 24, 2008
"Since 1950, four million acres of Pennsylvania farmland alone have been turned into sprawl, an area larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. In the same period, metropolitan Phoenix grew to encompass nearly 600 square miles, an area larger than Delaware. By most estimates, in the next half century sprawl is expected to consume more than 3.5 million acres of California's Great Central Valley, the nation's most valuable farmland..."
Source: Douglas Morris, It’s A Sprawl World After All
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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Posted by Sam on June 24, 2008 at 05:27 PM MDT #