OK, I’m not going to label the N&R’s Sunday front-pager and accompanying lead editorial on Greensboro’s mixed-use developments as advocacy journalism, since both were relatively even-handed.
The story’s theme was consumer demand, fair enough. I will highlight one interesting passage, though:
The suburban boom introduced a new pattern of development.
Spurred in part by poor conditions in overcrowded tenements and health considerations created by residents living amid factories, cities wrote zoning laws that separated uses and lowered densities.
Intoxicated with the possibilities created by the car, planners assumed everyone would want to drive everywhere.
There are indeed some out there who believe city planners are indeed intoxicated, though definitely not by possibilities created by the car.
