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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4178938" data-attributes="member: 3400">You are right that a lot of cities are wasteful in neighborhood planning, or at least have been. THere is a growing movement to go back to the old school of neighborhood development with higher densities of residences and businesses to help reduce the need for excess paving of roads and reduce the amount of driving people need to do.There are now political struggles going on between developers of sprawling neighborhoods with more space per home, which a lot of people like because it gets them more out into the "country" (as long as too many people don't follow them), and the higher density urban planners on appropriate land use and growth strategy.For a very long time, space was a resource the US simply HAD. Sprawl wasn't a serious problem because there was still plenty of space to grow into. In some places, that's still the case, but with rising energy costs it's no longer always the most important factor.</blockquote>