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Central planners delight in clucking that the world
In response, Portland and other cities are increasing traffic congestion by promoting higher-density housing, reducing roadway capacities and making parking difficult. Reducing congestion, planners say, would simply encourage more driving and decrease the number of people riding expensive light-rail trains.
One of the chief proponents of this view is James Howard Kunstler, author of the 1994 book “The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man- Made Landscape,” and “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century,” published earlier this year.
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