Ian Ritteris national online editor ofGlobeSt.RETAIL.
BOSTON-Symptoms of sprawl are inevitable and there's not a lotthat communities can do to prevent them, said some speakers at theInternational Council of Shopping Centers Research Meeting here atthe Boston Park Plaza. The panel, "Smart Growth: What We Know, WhatWe Think We Know and What We Need to Know," discussed the reasonsfor sprawl and gave a few examples of mixed-use projects that havecombated it.
Sprawl is primarily caused by natural population growth andimmigration, said Anthony Downs, a senior fellow at the Washington,DC-based Brookings Institute, and there isn't a whole lot thatlocal governments can do to prevent those actions. Growingpopulations in areas have caused the building of low-densityhousing on large plots of land, the loss of farmland and majortraffic congestion.
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