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Exurb growth challenges U.S. cities
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 27, 2005 09:34pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Monday, March 28, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | CNN) -- The highways hum at rush hour in Denver, Colorado, with more than a million commuters fighting a daily battle for space and time.
Buried in the traffic, Paul Sutton thinks about a more difficult fight: the struggle of this city -- and dozens more like it -- to control growth.
"I think it is one of the most fundamentally important issues with respect to social problems, economic problems and environmental problems," said Sutton, an assistant professor in the University of Denver's geography department. "Everything gets harder as the population grows."
The West is the fastest-growing region of the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and Colorado's population grew by about 30 percent from 1990 to 2000.
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