From the article: Stop Sprawl: How to Design a Walkable Neighborhood
New Urbanist thinker James Howard Kunstler wrote that America has become a "national automobile slum" with a landscape dominated by parking lots and highways. Do you agree? What's your vision for America's cities and towns?
Ugly America
- Yes, I'd have to agree, but I'd want to qualify it to say that most suburbs are ugly -- strip malls and boring houses, or worse, McMansions dominated by garages. Despite the beauty and diversity of the landscape, there's a dreadful sameness in contemporary America. There may be a few nods to traditional local building styles, but in general, you could scoop up a suburb in North Carolina and transport it to the suburbs of New York and it would fit right in.
- —Guest Alice
