"The CNU recently had its annual convention here in Denver, and [John] Norquist was not the only surprise for conservatives who expect hostility from "New Urbanists," folks who want to renew cities and retrofit suburbs to make them less car-centric. Sure, the CNU's first board president, San Francisco architect Peter Calthorpe, ripped me a minute into our sit-down because I admitted to skepticism about global warming, but he is also a school choice proponent.
Calthorpe's reasons for supporting vouchers differ from those of many evangelicals-he doesn't want middle-class families to feel the need to live in suburbs for the sake of their children's education-but he is the type of liberal co-belligerent (to use Francis Schaeffer's term) whom evangelicals need. So is architect/community planner Andrés Duany, who grew up in Cuba, left there in 1960, flashes a libertarian streak, and garnered great respect here as the CNU's top guru."
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sorry, I'm not sending money to a christian newsrag, even though the concept is interesting.
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Access must have expired: I could see the entire article yesterday. Too bad, it was an interesting take.
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I agree. I wish they wouldn't post clips to for-charge sites, much less fundamentalist ones.
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Just use Planetizen's link above to get to the abstract, use the "E-mail" button at the top of the article abstract (next to the "Print" button I think), and they'll e-mail you a link that allows full access. I just did it.