Throughout the article they are strongly against the idea of compact cities being implemented throughout the country, while even stating that we are not running out of space while we slowly, but clearly are. Agricultural land, density preferences, energy glut, the scope for transit, suburbanization and congestion, the efficiency of compactness, technology and agglomeration-congestion trade-offs, etc, were just some of the main topics touched upon within the article. All topics made very interesting points, some harder to argue against, but just about each one had a counter
Throughout the article they are strongly against the idea of compact cities being implemented throughout the country, while even stating that we are not running out of space while we slowly, but clearly are. Agricultural land, density preferences, energy glut, the scope for transit, suburbanization and congestion, the efficiency of compactness, technology and agglomeration-congestion trade-offs, etc, were just some of the main topics touched upon within the article. All topics made very interesting points, some harder to argue against, but just about each one had a counter