Better Transit Won't Prevent Sprawl

"The reality is that sprawl will prevail not because it will provide lower-cost housing -- although it may do that. Rather, the alternative of substantially raising densities in existing neighborhoods will be decisively rejected by NIMBY-oriented residents there. As long as power over land-use decisions and housing location remains totally in the hands of local governments, their continued support of exclusionary local zoning rules will dominate future urban policy."