Comment on Karen A. Danielsen, Robert E. Lang, and William Fulton's “Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing”

Abstract

Hypocrisy abounds in the smart growth movement. Many of its biggest advocates maintain the sprawling suburban lifestyle that the movement seeks to curtail. Smart growth is just the latest label for an exclusionary impulse that divides those Americans who already are enjoying the good life from those seeking to obtain it. Furthermore, smart growth threatens to derail one of the key engines of the national economy: suburban sprawl. Despite its negative image, sprawl is efficient and reflects consumer preference. In a nation where so much developable land remains, sprawl is hardly the environmental threat it is made out to be. The real threat is that the nation might adopt policies that halt development and frustrate the millions of people who seek their share of the suburban dream.

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