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CNU Fact Check: What War on Suburbia?
Submitted by rgallentine on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:47pm.
UPDATE: The original story stated falsely that Senator-Elect Scott Brown gained 11 points over the McCain vote statewide. The actual number is 16. This version has been updated to the correct figure.
In the most recent issue of The American magazine, Joel Kotkin makes
the case that suburban sprawl is under attack by new urbanism
and its allies (including members of the Obama administration), and predicts
this stance will backfire.
CNU member and Assistant Professor at Florida Coastal School of Law Michael
Lewyn does some paragraph-by-paragraph fact checking and offers a new urbanist's
counterarguements (in italics).
Kotkin writes:
A year into the Obama
administration, America’s dominant geography, suburbia, is now in open revolt
against an urban-centric regime that many perceive threatens their way of life,
values, and economic future. Scott Brown’s huge upset victory by 5 percent
in Massachusetts, which supported Obama by 26 percentage...
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