Abstract
In the past few years, widespread frustration with sprawling development patterns has precipitated an explosion in metropolitan thinking and action across the US. A new policy language - smart growth, livable communities, metropolitanism, sustainable development - has emerged to describe efforts to curb sprawl, preserve open space, and balance growth and is now common not only among political, civic, and corporate leaders, but also among developers and others in the real estate industry. Sprawl, in the end, is not just about too much growth. It is also about too little growth in many parts of metropolitan America. Understanding that linkage and bridging that divide is the key to resolving some major social and economic challenges.