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Saving neighborhoods by saving farms: Metropolitan congregations united for St. Louis challenges urban sprawl

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Critics usually decry urban sprawl's impact on the natural geograph— polluted air and water, vanishing farmlands, forests and open spaces. However, urban sprawl's effect onhuman geography has been even greater, as exemplified by metro St. Louis. With the region's urbanized land growing at seven times the rate of urbanized population, sprawl accelerated the decline of the central city and older, built-out suburbs (St. Louis lost over half its population since mid-century), increased economic segregation and stagnation (10 percent in 20 years by one measure) even as racial barriers were slowly lowered, and widened fiscal disparities among local governments (St. Louis City's property evaluation shrank by over 70 percent in 35 years). Inner-city and older-suburb coalitions, like Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis, are now joining environmental advocates to lobby for new state growth management laws. “We cannot win the ‘inside game’ without winning the ‘outside game,’” church leader explained.

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  • David Rusk, 1999. "Saving neighborhoods by saving farms: Metropolitan congregations united for St. Louis challenges urban sprawl," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(2), pages 21-31, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:28:y:1999:i:2:p:21-31
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02833981
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