Thursday, December 02, 2004

USATODAY.com: "This rapid decentralization is creating �a tribe of people who not only don't work in cities, they don't commute to cities or go to the movies in cities or have any contact with urban life,� writes New York Times columnist David Brooks. The exurbs they inhabit, he says, �have broken free of the gravitational pull of the cities and now exist in their own world far beyond.�
Here's what we ought to be asking: Is this world sustainable? Is it even what we want? And what is the alternative?"

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