After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real
estate prices to the floor in many places, some influential
academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of
something they had always hated: the suburbs.
In their view, the kind of homes and neighborhoods we live in are tacky, ugly, unsustainable blights. “Suburbia represents a compound economic catastrophe, ecological debacle, political nightmare, and spiritual crisis for a nation of people conditioned to spend their lives in places not worth caring about,” wrote James Howard Kunstler, a prominent New Urbanist writer who calls for the wholesale reordering of our built environment.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/07/why-new-urbanism-doesnt-work
In their view, the kind of homes and neighborhoods we live in are tacky, ugly, unsustainable blights. “Suburbia represents a compound economic catastrophe, ecological debacle, political nightmare, and spiritual crisis for a nation of people conditioned to spend their lives in places not worth caring about,” wrote James Howard Kunstler, a prominent New Urbanist writer who calls for the wholesale reordering of our built environment.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/07/why-new-urbanism-doesnt-work
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