More reporting on exurbs

Today's New York Times has the article "Living Large, by Design, in the Middle of Nowhere" and yesterday's Detroit News unleashed a special report, "The Great Lakes: An Endangered Legacy" with great articles (28 stories in all) and amazing graphics and photos.

Port Huron, Michigan. Shown in the aerial photographs taken in the Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario area on August 3, 2005. Crowding to the edge of the water, rows of houses create a different sort of view of the Michigan shoreline. (Robin Buckson/The Detroit News)

Richard Patterson for The New York Times. In Florida's New River community the houses resemble those of suburbs from the past, except they are larger and closer together. Developers have done surveys to determine what potential owners want.

Sprawl is sprawl. Even if the subdivisions use land better by using "new urbanism" principles.