Americans Love Sprawl
This from Reason’s blog Out of Control:
Planners are obviously slow to get the message that they’re putting a great deal of energy into social engineering schemes that run completely counter to mainstream consumer preferences and lifestyle choices. It would be “smarter” for them to embrace a market-oriented planning system designed to address the tangible impacts of growth while allowing the market to dynamically respond to changing consumer preferences, not the utopian, dehumanized visions of social engineers.
Whole blog here.