The Protean Future Of American Cities
26th March 2011
Joel Kotkin is always worth reading.
The ongoing Census reveals the continuing evolution of America’s cities from small urban cores to dispersed, multi-polar regions that includes the city’s surrounding areas and suburbs. This is not exactly what most urban pundits, and journalists covering cities, would like to see, but the reality is there for anyone who reads the numbers.
This is why mass transit, especially commuter rail and HOV lanes, doesn’t work, and will never work; the functional equivalent of setting up hitching posts along the sidewalk to encourage folks to switch from automobiles to horses.