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20 December 2003 - 5:00am

Sydney, Australia lacks land and infrastructure at its fringes.

Inadequate planning at the north and west edges of Sydney, Australia have led to complaints by new residents. "While access to recycled water and some community programs were good, inadequate planning had left the area with poor transport, heavy mortgages and isolated people." Local analysts feel that infill will be a better solution, as well as a reduction of red tape.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, December 19, 2003
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.