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The Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) aims to improve the quality of the regional and urban environment by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through its member and public education, in concert with allied community and professional groups. Join us!

2024 Symposium

The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.

2023 RUDC Symposium

The RUDC Symposium, held in Washington, DC October 19-20, covered emerging trends, theories, and technologies that are shaping the future of regional and urban design. Watch the engaging highlight and speaker videos >.

Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

  • 1.  Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

    Posted 09-20-2016 04:38 PM

    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

    When a Berkeley economist with a PhD  asserts in a new paper that sprawl is the best way of generating affordable housing and uses a litany of graphs to prove that single family development is not only the domain of suburbia but also of all American cities and Columbia PhD urban planner Richard Florida writes a rebuttal in CityLab, the sparring should be quite interesting....

    Alas, in spite of Issi Romem's contention that cities have to choose between expansive or expensive, Florida has little to offer in the way of a rebuttal.

    Read a rebuttal here

    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

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    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?
    When a Berkeley economist with a PhD asserts in a new paper that sprawl is the best way of generating affordable housing and uses a litany...
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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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    24.04.30 RUDC AIAU