...most modern planners specifically reject the models of that era and are trying to in fact reverse many of its worse aspects. They are trying to rebuild strong neighborhoods, decrease sprawl and "infill" development in inner suburbs to encourage better transit, better energy use and more humane living conditions.
The irony is that the Right is organizing to make suburbanization a one-way ticket-- having celebrated the suburbanization of society, they want to deny modern cities the tools to reverse the process.
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Perhaps, but at this stage of the game, I'm much more interested in reviewing the actual designs of these "modern planners" than watching pro and con debates wind endlessly on.
Plans (and any legislation used to give them teeth) have foreseeable consequences that can be uncovered by carefully examining their details.
Can you provide examples of some of these schemes? They can stand or fall on their merits.
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