Andrew Kaczynski/Video screen capture
We have all become accustomed to towards the 2011 version of Obama, together with his hair quickly graying underneath the constant demands of his office. But this CSPAN video from 1998, submitted to YouTube by Andrew Kaczynski, reminds us of the items the Leader appeared as if 13 years back, as well as what he considered a recurring theme on TreeHugger- the significance of metropolitan areas.
Speaking in a Brookings Institution panel around the revitalization of metropolitan areas, Obama, the Condition Senator representing a Chicago district, does not submit any radical, as well as particularly eco-friendly ideas, but he is doing target the plight of urban citizens as suburban sprawl drawn jobs and wealth from metropolitan areas.
He mentions "ongoing designs of inequality" and discuses the requirement for better schools in inner metropolitan areas to attract wealthy citizens in, along with the "spacial mismatch" between thriving downtown business districts and unemployment in residential communities.
Because the first urban leader since 1881, Obama has not backed off his view that metropolitan areas would be the solution, not the issue. In 2008, he told U . s . States Conference of Mayors:
Yes, we have to strengthen our metropolitan areas. But we should also stop seeing our metropolitan areas because the problem and begin seeing them because the solution. Because strong metropolitan areas are the inspiration of strong regions, and robust regions are crucial for any strong America.
The densest city is not always the greenest one, but there is no doubt that after communities are walkable (ie not the and surrounding suburbs), the atmosphere is best - the ones are more happy.
Via Dr. Pratik Mhatre's Urban Planning Blog.
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