Living and working in the same community is a thing of the past for many California residents. Affordable housing is creeping further away from urban areas. Aside from longer morning commutes, there are more consequences to urban sprawl.
Katherine Perez offers us some perspective. She is the Executive Director of the Transportation & Land Use Collaborative of Southern California, working with cities to create smart strategies that serve individual communities.
According to Perez, we can improve the situation:
“I think, by and large [Californians] are saying to themselves we can do better. And, in fact, I would make the case that we have to do better.”
- “Sprawl Hitting the Wall”, a report by USC and The Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
- “Has LA Sprawl Really Hit the Wall?”, Southern Sierran, Beth Steckler
- Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California
- Latino New Urbanism: A project of the Transportation and Land Use Collaborative
- “Latino New Urbanism: Building on Cultural Preferences”, Michael Mendez, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech (PDF)