Dr. Tom P. Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Is This Your Beautiful House?

   www.fastcompany.com/magazine/4 - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/23/2006   Last Visited: 12/23/2006

   But Thomas Clark, professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Colorado at Denver, still worries about emerging demographic trends. "In the next 25 years, 40% of the gain in the American population will reside in just eight states in the Rocky Mountain West," he says.

2. 2. Summit Daily News for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - News

   www.summitdaily.com/article/20 - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/28/2006   Last Visited: 10/3/2006

   Tom Clark, professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, called FasTracks "one of the nation's most ambitious efforts to retrofit transit in a region that, over the last three decades, has de-densified as a product of continuing sprawl at an accelerating rate."
   
   But despite FasTracks' promise to take wheels off roads and fuel high-density development near rail stations, sprawl remains the regional norm. In addition to fringe growth in Adams County, Douglas County or Weld County, large single-family housing developments in nearby Erie and Broomfield could add 73,000 people by 2030. The two communities have about 58,000 residents now.
   
   Clark said urban areas are eating into the interstitial space between Front Range communities, creating "urban behemoths for which we have no governmental answer." He said preserving sanctity and separateness of communities should be a top priority and buying open space is the only way to do it.
   
   "Anything less leaves us vulnerable," Clark said.
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   "The effect of those good planning decisions has simply been to add additional attraction to a site that has already been in high demand," Clark said.

3. 3. Springs News -- Colorado Springs Real Estate - Roberta Stein

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   Last Visited: 1/2/2008

   "The situation in Denver is, in so many ways, a product of nearly a decade of prosperity and growth," said Tom Clark, a regional economist at the University of Colorado at Denver.
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   Clark said. "I think what we're really going to see is a gradual shift in the market."
   
   High-end homes could lose some of their value, but more moderately priced homes will hold their value because of low mortgage rates and demand from first-time and downsizing buyers, Clark said.