http://blog.mixedusecores.comQuick BlogWed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:34 GMThttp://blog.mixedusecores.com/2007/08/24/should-subsidies-go-to-mixed-use-or-sprawl.aspx#comment-545554Dennis M BurkeRod, it is always refreshing and clarifying to listen to you on these topics. Your intellectual leadership of downtown Phoenix's development opened up the thinking of the region. I look forward to your future contributions here.<br> <br>Certainly the largest challenge in all this is to bridge the gap betweeen what we know should be done and what can be done politically. <br> <br>Those who profit from auto-oriented sprawl retain a stranglehold on the planning efforts of many cities. Breaking this hold is a necessary task if there is to be any progress. <br> <br>A creative expansion of the conflict of interest laws, the advancement of public funding of city council and county commission campaigns, and the establishment of strong city and regional goals programs with some degree of enforceability might all be necessary. The end of cheap oil, it seems, will not be enough. <br> <br>While I did not comment on your previous entry, I might add that a city designed for more walking will also provide the great human and financial advantage of better health for its citizens, well into late life. The health advantages of daily walking are well documented and could be added to the personal and social cost savings of the pedestrian city.http://blog.mixedusecores.com/2007/08/24/should-subsidies-go-to-mixed-use-or-sprawl.aspx#comment-545554Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:10:03 GMT