Gerrit Knaap: 'Smart growth' needed, not sprawl

May 29, 2019 / Updated Jun 3, 2025

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Gerrit Knaap: 'Smart growth' needed, not sprawl

Gerrit Knaap presents the keynote speech tonight, October 4th, at a three-day conference on smart growth that is being hosted by the University of Illinois' Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment. The focus of the conference is on sustainable cities. Here, Gerrit talks about smart growth’s successes, policies and politics in this interview with The News Gazette.