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I do think that this blog has very knowledgeable people who read multiple points of view and dont go with the "follow the leader" method of discussion. Theres lots of times I have seen articles on GGW that go against what other urbanist website say. At the end of the day though, the site has an urbanist bias, it is what it is. Should there be a contrarian column from time to time? Sure but most people against urbanism use concepts like, urbanism is communism forcing people to live in tiny boxes, as a legitimate argument against the concept. That is not a useful discussion.

A discussion of how suburbs are better than urban regions would be great, though if you read people like the anti-planner, their point of view is often comical at best. To see all people who see the economic efficiency of civilization in cities (something shown over the course of 4 millenia) as anti-auto radicals who want to destroy all things petrol is just dangerous rhetoric.

I am definitely not saying that is anything like what you are saying Jazzy, but I am saying why it is so hard to talk about the counter point with people who simply hate cities (even though most of them work in a city)... carpet baggers

by Tysons Engineer on Jul 9, 2012 10:53 pm • link • report

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