What drives the runaway growth in the Seattle area?
Much of the growth comes from external factors we cannot control. But not all of it is beyond local political control. An urban geographer sorts out the unusual concentration of growth hormones that hit the area and looks at the dilemmas of rapid growth.
By Richard Morrill
Posted on August 7, 2007. Printed on August 30, 2008.
http://www.crosscut.com/seattle/5987/
Richard Morrill is an urban demographer and taught for many years at the University of Washington's Department of Geography.