So in our region, for instance, we need to arrive at an updated protocol among the big cities and the several sub-regional suburban alliances. This might have made some sense in the 1950s, but is long outdated. Suburbia is intrinsically flawed Modern urban policy seems to be based on the idea that the suburbs are flawed, and that they need to be policed. This approach to the suburbs is coercively regulatory rather than helpfully visionary . However, when more than half of the nation chooses to live in suburbia, it is preposterous to maintain that that suburbanites are wrong.
Suburbs are mainstream .
Sprawl is inefficient For many U.S. regions, perhaps all, the average suburban commute is shorter than the commute downtown. Housing costs are lower, development costs are lower, and so forth. The fewer modes, the better. No point in building new highways, since they will just get congested. In reality, since the interstate system was completed in 1971, there has been no systematical expansion of regional highway networks.