Distressed subdivisions (shown in red, above) have little or no infrastructure. Many more subdivisions, though empty or nearly so, aren’t called “distressed,” because they have completed infrastructure.
Rob Marin
Posted inMay 10, 2004: Shooting Spree
Jackson can’t agree on growth
A decade after a model planning effort, Jackson’s downtown is stagnant, while its workers are priced out
Posted inApril 29, 2002: The Great Salt Lake Mystery
Leave my town out of your ‘Top 10’
Help me with a quick survey: Pick the “10 Best Towns” that people call home in America. Go ahead, take a minute. I’m betting Driggs, Idaho, wasn’t your top choice. But that’s assuming you didn’t pick up the March issue of Men’s Journal while waiting for a root canal and see its list of the […]
Posted inApril 15, 2002: Raising a stink
Those darn capitalist tendencies
Dear HCN, I appreciated George Sibley’s essay, “How I lost my town” (HCN, 3/18/02: How I lost my town), and I can certainly empathize with his loss. In 1981, I spent a month near Crested Butte as a student on an environmental policy field course. Locals were celebrating AMAX’s cancellation of the proposed Mount Emmons […]