On Urban Sprawl and Sustainability: Ms AAF’s Diary
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on April 20, 2008 – 8:51 am -The following diary has been written by Ms AAF, who is currently going through her post-grad psychology master and has little time to squander on the tubes, as I do (though she patrols this site and DKos) and having read her latest essay, which fits nicely with today’s world food crisis, I have persuaded her to let me post it here, unabridged and linkless. Be gentle.
The developed nations of the North, and especially the USA, as the biggest economy in the world, directly and through the institutions under their control, have dominated the world economy in the 20th century. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, the poor neighbors/cousins of the USA. Latin American cities in the 20th century developed along the lines of the North American model of a high-priced downtown business district and sprawling suburbs. Due to this sprawled layout, North American cities themselves are largely car-dependent, although here the affordability of modern technology leads to the pollution being less intensely felt by the cities’ inhabitants.
Tags: Cities, Environment, Mexico, Pollution, Sustainability, Urban Sprawls
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