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We demand an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing and environmental neglect in the housing industry. Neighborhoods and homes should be built for people not excessive profits. They should be healthy, vibrant, and not require long commutes. They should uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We believe that everyone has an obligation to create thoughtful, responsible, and sustainable places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
"We have eyes which do not see."Le Corbusier, Architect
"We are all searching for home, but we are trying to find it by building more rooms and more space. Instead of thinking about the quality of the spaces we live in, we tend to focus on quantity. But a house is so much more than its size and volume, neither of which has anything to do with comfort."Source: Sarah Susanka, The Not So Big House
"In sprawl, you see a lot of activity but not a lot of life. You see the graveyard of livability."Source: Richard Moe, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
Suburban Land Use
"Between 1971 and 2001 urbanization gobbled up 152,000 square kilometers of farmland, an area three times the size of Prince Edward Island."Source: John Lorinc, The New City
Public Health and the Built Environment
"We now realize that how we design the built environment may hold tremendous potential for addressing many of the nation's greatest current public health concerns, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma, injury, depression, violence, and social inequities."Source: Dr. Richard J. Jackson, The Impact of the Built Environment on Human Health: An Emerging Field
"(Suburbs) do nothing to satisfy our social human needs; they do nothing to encourage us to be anything but strangers who happen to park their cars on the same street every night."Source: Ferenc Mate, A Reasonable Life
"At this point, the United States has paved a land area equivalent in size to the state of Georgia."
"From 1969 to 1995, the number of private vehicles per household rose more than 50% to roughly one vehicle per licensed driver."
"Since 1970, the US population has increased 37%, but the distance traveled by the nation's fleet of cars, motorcycles, sport-utility vehicles, and small trucks increased 143%."
"From 1982 to 2000, the annual hours of highway traffic delay per person in urban areas increased from 16 hours to 62 hours per year".Source: Dr. Richard Jackson, The Impact of the Built Environment on Human Health