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New Urbanism/Smart Growth Discussion Products
Dr. Arthur C. Nelson &
Congress for New Urbanism v.
Georgia Public Policy Foundation/Wendell Cox

American Dream Boundaries, by Wendell Cox, was released by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation (July 2001) in response to an American Planning Association article by Dr. Arthur C. Nelson which hypothesized that so-called smart growth strategies might have induced superior performance in Oregon and Portland in relation to Atlanta and Georgia, which do not have such policies. American Growth Boundaries reviewed the analysis by Dr. Nelson and found generally that the purported Portland and Oregon performance advantages had either disappeared in subsequent years or simply did not exist.

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) issued a response to American Growth Boundaries (December 2001). The piece is authored by John Fregonese Fregonese-Calthorpe Associates and former planning director of Portland Metro), Lynn Peterson (Tri-Met, the Portland transit agency) with the assistance of Dr. Arthur C. Nelson (Georgia Tech). CNU is a principal proponent of so-called "smart growth" policies and the leading organizational advocate of "new urbanism."

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and Wendell Cox released comments on the Congress of New Urbanism report in Misfiring from the Urban Moat.

Dr. Nelson and Wendell Cox have appeared on three separate panels together discussing their contrasting views.

Links to the various papers are below.

Article by Dr. Arthur C. Nelson --- 10/99

GPPF/Cox Response (American Dream Boundaries [ADB]) - 7/01
PDF Version

Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) response to ADB - 12/01

GPPF/Cox response to CNU - 12/01
PDF Version

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