CNU Salons

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...