I ask Listeners to be polite to people who disagree with you. In response to Mr. Joe Snyder's argument that the sprawl monster is going to get us, I must disagree.
Sprawl is now the all-purpose scapegoat for urban discontents.
Sprawl has been implicated for the rise in American obesity. The debate over sprawl is not new. The emergence of a national movement with aggressive prescriptions for changing the face of America's metropolitan areas is the hot trend. The brilliant public relations strategy of smart growth has become the buzz word to use against potential critics of governmental policy agendas. Half of the nation's governors from both parties have endorsed smart growth or a closely equivalent term.