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- Slide 1: Roads, Rail and Infrastructure The growth grid and a new green deal
- Slide 2: $700B is a big number! What are hockey moms getting for that?
- Slide 3: effortless Commerce
- Slide 4: What did we build outside of strip malls & starbucks in the housing boom?
- Slide 5: Passive Gr ow th
- Slide 6: Financial Market
- Slide 7: What have we been left with from the internet & housing booms which we can reuse?
- 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
- Slide 9: Maybe we could build something
- Slide 10: where the people are uneven distribution
- 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.
- 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
- Slide 13: Where the highways are a bunch of gaps
- Slide 14: Maybe we could make it easier to move things and go places on less fuel
- Slide 15: where the pollution is hmm… it’s where large populations & infrastructure are
- Slide 16: what if people could move to other places with new industry?
- Slide 18: could you improve the economy AND the environment?
- Slide 19: a new green deal?
- Slide 20: build a growth grid? Infrastructure for a tertiary economy
- 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
- Slide 22: maybe we could think a little bigger
- Slide 23: maybe YOU should vote
- Slide 24: www.spatiallyrelevant.org © 2008
- 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


