Suburban Common Sense

Finally, someone writes sensible words about how people really choose to live, in contrast to how the so-called "planning community" would like us to live. See a New Geography article by Wendell Cox.

His column is about suburbanization in Mexico. However, I particularly like his more general introduction:

There is an increasing recognition – at least outside the academy, planning organization and urban core developer groups – that the spatial expansion of cities or suburbanization represents the evolving urban form of not only the United States and virtually all of the high income world but also across the developing world, whether middle income or third world.

A one-sentence paragraph, shameful. Nevertheless, Cox has the right idea.