Smart growth’s overall benefits are so great that if all new residential construction in the United States over the next 10 years were built to resemble existing smart growth projects, the economic benefit to the economy would exceed $2 trillion—about 20 percent of one year’s gross domestic product (Burer, Mary Jean, David B. Goldstein, J. Holtzclaw. Location Efficiency as the Missing Piece of The Energy Puzzle: How Smart Growth Can Unlock Trillion Dollar Consumer Cost Savings
