"Shaping an urban area" in the rural West: Part IV

Tackling the housing supply-demand fallacy

Welcome to another installment in the ongoing Land Desk series looking at planning in the West, launching off from a 1971 comprehensive land-use plan for Durango, Colorado. Read Part I, Part II, Part III. This one deals with housing.

When I first perused the 1971 planning document this series is based on, “DURANGO! Shaping An Urban Area,” I was surprise…