SPRAWL BEGETS FORECLOSURE. Apropos of recent debates about suburban sprawl -- do we encourage it through bad incentives or are the suburbs just gosh darn nice places to live -- The New York Times reports on rising home foreclosures in Atlanta (albeit, without mentioning the area's runaway growth, acknowledged by just about everyone concerned about contemporary cities, even Georgia's Republican former governor, Roy Barnes). There's been a 212 percent increase in forclosures in Atlanta's Fulton County, and 13 counties in the metro region have been in violation of the Clean Air Act. It's a landscape bad for pocketbooks, bad for the environment, and great for the auto and oil industries. --Dana Goldstein
