Thursday, October 28, 2010

Village Green: A family copes with the unexpected costs of sprawl (video)

by Kaid at NRDC

Queen Creek, Arizona, is on the far southeastern fringe of metropolitan Phoenix.  According to Google Maps, it’s 38 miles and about an hour to central Phoenix by the shortest route.

The land use pattern in and around Queen Creek consists of random enclaves of newly developed leapfrog sprawl, with equally random patches of irrigated agriculture to the north and east.



continued at Daily Kos....