All Posts Tagged With: "James Howard Kunstler"
Gas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society
As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]
1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedNew Urbanism: Same Old Social Engineering
What should libertarians think of an increasingly influential land-use and planning movement known as the New Urbanism,
which seeks a broad change in the way cities and suburbs
develop?
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