Dash of Calabash

This comes by way of the Heartland Blog “From the Heartland” and refers to the work of that tireless researcher Wendell Cox on his website Demographia. (2nd quoted paragraph below is a link.)

There are few public policy issues more driven my myth than land use and the currently fashionable strategies of “smart growth” or “urban consolidation.”

Virtually all of the arguments made in support of smart growth’s densification and land restriction policies melt away when subjected to the light of scrutiny.  

The facts are “smart growth” (which is stupid growth in truth) simply doesn’t hold up when looked at carefully.