Past Visions, Future Solutions: Solving the Conundrum of Suburban Sprawl
Suburban sprawl has become a pejorative in our everyday language as gridlocked traffic, threatened resources, and an increasingly gaudy landscape strip away Florida’s quality of life. Stephenson traces the origins of Florida’s growth problems and looks at historic remedies to solve the seeming conundrum of suburban sprawl.
Bruce Stephenson is director of the Environmental & Growth Management Studies program at Rollins College, and is a professional planner, consultant, and professor. A leading expert on New Urbanism, he has written and lectured extensively on city planning and environmental issues. He is author of Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995 (Ohio State University Press, 1997). Listen to an audio clip of an interview with Bruce Stephenson
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LCD projector
computer (capable of running PowerPoint)
screen (or blank/white wall)
microphone
podium
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