Victory Lap

Last week, “futurist” Joel Kotkin, a fellow of the New America Foundation, wrote a column for the Washington Post titled “Rule Suburbia,” declaring that the land-use debate is now over and suburban sprawl is the undisputed winner.
“Once we acknowledge this reality, we can turn to the task of making the best of it.”Kotkin wrote.
Kotkin, a highly-paid consultant to municipalities on these matters, is apparently unaware that the world is cruising at full steam into the immovable obstacle of a permanent energy crisis. But his credulous declaration of sprawl’s triumph is only one small example of our society’s fecklessness.

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