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1. Slide 1: Roads, Rail and Infrastructure The growth grid and a new green deal
2. Slide 2: $700B is a big number! What are hockey moms getting for that?
3. Slide 3: effortless Commerce
4. Slide 4: What did we build outside of strip malls & starbucks in the housing boom?
5. Slide 5: Passive Gr ow th
6. Slide 6: Financial Market
7. Slide 7: What have we been left with from the internet & housing booms which we can reuse?
8. Slide 8: “ This is the economy that my opponent said made 'great progress' under the policies of George W. Bush, and those are the economic policies that he proposes “ to continue another four years barack obama
9. Slide 9: Maybe we could build something
10. Slide 10: where the people are uneven distribution
11. Slide 11: also where the people are U.S. loses 159,000 jobs in September, worst one- month drop in five years Economists say the accelerating pace of unemployment, combined with the most severe credit crisis since the Great Depression, makes the label of 'recession' increasingly likely.
12. Slide 12: where are these people? “ You know that there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall St. And it is -- people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But “ these are very, very difficult times. john mccain
13. Slide 13: Where the highways are a bunch of gaps
14. Slide 14: Maybe we could make it easier to move things and go places on less fuel
15. Slide 15: where the pollution is hmm… it’s where large populations & infrastructure are
16. Slide 16: what if people could move to other places with new industry?
17. Slide 18: could you improve the economy AND the environment?
18. Slide 19: a new green deal?
19. Slide 20: build a growth grid? Infrastructure for a tertiary economy
20. Slide 21: The growth grid masstransit states highways energy JOBS populationdensity small business bandwidth rail Tarriffs localgrowth eminentdomain wind crossindustry middleclass whitecollar emmissions privatesector wireless publicsector municipalities establish sustainability
21. Slide 22: maybe we could think a little bigger
22. Slide 23: maybe YOU should vote
23. Slide 24: www.spatiallyrelevant.org © 2008
24. Slide 25: credits http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/ http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/us-map.tcl http://flickr.com/photos/ghost-of-total/2570410485 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wpa1.JPG QUOTES: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/fr ont/la-fi-economy4- http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive 2008oct04,0,1408655.story s/individual/2008_09/014725.php