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The Exurban Meltdown: We Are Goldman Sachs

April 19, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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Did runaway exurban sprawl--particularly in hypergrowth Sunbelt communities--help create the conditions for gaming in financial industry? In other words, Goldman Sachs and other financial firms gave us what we wanted as a nation and then bet against us when they saw too many suckers entering the game.  These issues... [read more]

Deconstructing sprawl (literally)

May 21, 2009 by Kaid Benfield
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       Last week, Emanuel Satingin wrote on the blog of Americana Development: "A Texas bank is about done demolishing 16 new and partially built houses acquired in Southern California through foreclosure, figuring it was better to knock them down than to try selling them in the depressed... [read more]