When Growth Management Fails, Build New Towns

Growth management is only slowing the eventual demise of the modern city. Richard Carson proposes starting over.

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April 19, 2001, 11:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


Our practical experience is that over time today's metro-complexes are in the process of becoming urban ghettos. With growth management this process is simply occurring slower than in those places not practicing growth management. In other words, we have "managed" to slow the advent of the disease, but not cure it. Growth management cannot change the fact that overcrowding, traffic congestion and poor air quality is what we will end up with... My response is that is never too late to create a totally new way of building cities.

Thanks to Richard Carson

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