ABSTRACT
Smart growth, a successor to growth management, has been around since at least the early 1990s and embodies many of the principles of good planning that have been around for half a century or more. Continued growth requires change, and our new domestic policies must incorporate values of stewardship. Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Benton MacKaye all saw land as part of the national soul and knew that Americans must be stewards. New domestic policies, founded on the values of freedom and fairness, need to be driven by economic efficiency and coordinated public-private investments as well. Canals, railroads, seaports, airports, and highways were built by government or government assistance. Federal airport funding and military aircraft purchase did the same for the jet age. Federal water programs linked supplies with thirsty cities, often hundreds of miles apart, and later provided clean water for growing suburbs.
