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Article: Health by Design: The Crusade for Healthier Cities in the Sacramento Valley
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- The Next American City
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN CALIFORNIA'S Sacramento Valley, sprawling suburbs spring from the fertile agricultural land that has long been the economic and cultural center of the region. New developments of track homes and super-stores are named for the crops they supplanted: Walnut Grove, Wheatland, and Orangevale. Signs lining the freeway from San Francisco advertise spacious homes from the low-$300,000s and, as one billboard puts it, a "better, easier life." As Bay Area residents flee San Francisco's disappearing jobs and soaring housing prices, Sacramento, lying just seventy miles to the east, braces for unprecedented growth. More than a million additional housing units will be needed in the ...