Mike Ivey of the Capital Times is quoted on Hirschhorn's book as saying:
"Hirschhorn does a wonderful job of tying together the roots of bad land
use, including the "sprawl shills" who serve the industry - land
developers, home builders, road builders and others who live off automobile
dependency."
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Please join the Wisconsin Student Planners Association in welcoming back to
campus noted author Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D. Dr. Hirschhorn will be
speaking on Tueday, May 9th at 5:00 p.m. in room 165 of Bascom Hall. Dr.
Hirschhorn's event is free and open to the the University community and the
general public.
Joel Hirschhorn is the author of Sprawl Kills: How the Blandburbs Steal
Your Time, Health and Money". Joel is the former Director of the Natural
Resources Policy Studies, Center for Best Practices, for the National
Governors Association. The Division conducts studies on growth management,
environmental, energy, natural resource, agriculture, and emergency
management topics, and provides technical assistance in these areas to
Governors and their policy advisors. In 2000, NGA released Growing Pains:
Quality of Life in the New Economy, an introduction to smart growth type
state initiatives, which Joel authored. Three other reports have been
issued: New Mission for Brownfields Attacking Sprawl by Revitalizing
Older Communities; In the Fast Lane: Delivering More Transportation Choices
to Break Gridlock; and New Community Design to the Rescue Fulfilling
Another American Dream.
Joel is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National
Foundation for Environmental Education. Prior to joining the NGA, Joel was
President of Hirschhorn & Associates, an environmental consulting practice
serving a variety of public and private sector clients, and he was Editor
of Remediation: The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies &
Techniques. Earlier in his career, Joel was a Senior Associate at the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he directed many
influential studies on industry and environmental issues such as pollution
prevention and site cleanups. Before that he was a full professor of
engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he specialized
in low waste manufacturing technologies.
Joel earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He has published extensively, including several books and over
100 professional papers, and has appeared on many television and radio
programs as an environmental and policy expert. He co-authored Prosperity
Without Pollution: The Prevention Strategy for Industry and Consumers.
Joel was among the first policy analysts to begin to draw conclusions about
and explore correlations between about our current urban form and the
general decline in community health. His latest book, Sprawl Kills, is
described as follows:
"No matter what you now know about urban sprawl or smart growth, this book
will give you more new information and insights than anything else you have
read. It treats sprawl from a totally holistic perspective: Sprawl is
culture, un-places, land use, pattern of housing and commercial
development, a corruption of the housing market, a choice about everyday
physical activity and transportation, a major financial cost, the reason
for Americans being time-poor, and much, much more. Learn about Suburban
Blandness Syndrome, Sprawl Stress Syndrome, and Sedentary Death Syndrome --
the three stages of pain, suffering and eventually death from the sprawl
lifestyle. Read incredible information about the health benefits of active
living in a walkable mixed-use community versus the terrible price paid for
sedentary living in sprawl. Learn about automobile apartheid, automobile
addiction, and how you can escape being a prisoner of sprawl
isolation. Learn how the sprawl industry and the sprawl lobby corrupts
government to keep its monopoly in the housing market. You cannot trust
your local government. We have the solution to sprawl -- Healthy
Places. Hundreds already exist. Read about many of them in suburbs and
urban areas. Suburbia does not have to mean sprawl! Learn how you can
offset the corrupting power of the sprawl industry through community based
planning and design, and the use of the checklist given in the book."
Mike Ivey of the Capital Times is quoted on the book as saying: "Hirschhorn
does a wonderful job of tying together the roots of bad land use, including
the "sprawl shills" who serve the industry - land developers, home
builders, road builders and others who live off automobile dependency."
Please join us on Tuesday, May 9th at 5:00-7:00 p.m. in room 165 of Bascom
Hall.
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