Reply #12: but lost on deaf ears....

[Wells]

I rushed my original writing, to quickly spur discussion, but predictably, few have a more complete understanding and failed to take the bait; even thoughful Bemildred. Iraq is suffering a nearly centry-old Oil War; a war for the resource that powers the motorization age. The Bush Dynasty has been an active participant since WW1. Despite the advancements to civilization that the internal combustion engine and transportation/construction infrastructure has brought, its' misuse and abuse predict significant downsizing within the next 50 years; gradually or cataclysmically. No alternate fuel/energy replacement or transportation technofix can stop its inexorable progression.

Those who are disillusioned with the new urbanism, (various downtown and inner-city construction projects), should more carefully consider its resource use, energy efficiencies, environmental restorations, tax expenditures benefiting a broad public realm, societal 'blending' (however incomplete) that occured within these housing industries over the decade of the 1990's, under the umbrella of the 'creative class'. The initial costs of a new product are always higher.

A course of planning entitled Regionalism, (or MAR, Metropolitan Area Regionalism), stands to become the next venture advancement in history.

Its tenets derived from the new urbanism stand to multiply that fields achievements, while reducing its shot-in-the-arm needle stings: gentrification, displacement, rising costs of living.

Regionalism strengthens local and regional economies; the only replacement for the globalization's irrefutably unsustainable dependence upon long-distance transport.