All decisions will be made at the state or local level. Successful regions will have communities that learn to grow smart. Smart growth will be part and parcel of the successful community of the future. There is a lot of confusion. Conservatives see it as statist planning - an effort to control land use.
Liberals see it sometimes just as a meaningless word to allow people to keep on sprawling.
The truth always lies somewhere in the middle. He had the ability to anticipate. That is not planning. This is a sign of decay. We need a new ethic of land use and development that optimizes value and creates qualitatively better communities rather than quantitatively bigger communities.