ABSTRACT
Every single aspect of what planners describe in terms of the suburban metrics of transportation inefficiency or land consumption are immediately and directly felt by the European implant who becomes utterly disoriented and has to adjust life in many more ways than ever anticipated. Moreover, it was obvious how rampant sprawl in the outer suburbs contributed directly to the decline of Maryland's largest city, Baltimore. The concentration of poverty in Baltimore is a direct result of the history of sprawl and dispersal. Many grasp what feels initially non-sensical: that density in suitable places reduces traffic congestion, that safeguards for farms and forests improve property values or that sprawl's short-lived gains only precede bankrupt communities in the long run. Following O'Malley's widely recognized model of CitiStat, a city-based approach of measuring progress via data, the State began to implement smart-growth indicators. Eventually the State plan became little more than a data collection.
