Issue No. 4 : The Suburban Frontier

Summer 1999

Columns

• Guest Editorial : "Why is Sprawl Such a Disaster?" by Dr. John Holtzclaw, Sierra Club
• The Literal Landscape : "The Good Suburb" by Simmons B. Buntin
• What a Fool Believes... : "How Far is Enough?" by Todd Ziebarth
• Bull Hill : "The Selfish Landscape" by David Rothenberg

Poetry

• Three Poems by Peter Huggins
• Three Poems by Patricia Ranzoni
• Two Poems by Cathy Mellett
• Five Poems by William C. Burns, Jr.

Essays

• "The Cottonwoods" by Gary Snyder
• "Skeletons in the Closet of the Suburban Frontier" by Kris Price
• "The Loneliest Road in America" by David Robertson

Fiction

• "A Christmas Orphan" by James Howard Kunstler

Articles

• "Is Regional Planning the Solution, or the Problem?"  Point-Counterpoint Between Albert A. Bartlett and Thomas A. Clark
• "Suburbonomics:  Harnessing Land Values to Transform Sprawl" by Jeffery J. Smith

Reviews

• Don Weiss Reviews Ernest Callenbach's Ecology: A Pocket Guide
• Steven Best Reviews Allen Hammond's Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices and Tom Athanasiou's Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor

Interview

• "Deficiencies in Suburban Design" : A Video Interview with Elizabeth Moule by David Wann

ARTerrain Gallery

• Robert Prenovault : Sculptures

UnSprawl Case Study

• Tualatin Commons in Tualatin, Oregon