Smart growth is all the rage-everybody says they want to stop urban sprawl.
The authors argue that implementation of a pure smart growth strategy involves governmental intrusion that people will not accept-for example, housing density controls, development impact fees, and mandatory staggered work hours to reduce traffic congestion. On the other hand, the authors say planners and policy makers have learned from past mistakes, such as 1960s urban renewal activities that used a bulldozer approach to level old building and neighborhoods and replace them with new ones, without regard to the merits of preserving anything old.