Reply #185: Generalizations are not good when talking about people.

[GumboYaYa]

We are talking about development trends across the country. generalizations are the only thing that make sense in that context. To talk about specifics in that context would drag us into the mundane and have little meaning for most people. For example, I can talk specifically about Wildwood a suburb of St. Louis that requires almost an hour drive to downtown, but no one else would know what I am talking about. I could also talk about Old Town St. Charles, a newer development that has incorporated some of the design and zoning tecjhniques I have advocated, but again no one would know what I am talking about. Unfortunately, we do understand suburbia in general, b/c real estate development has taken a common course across the country. I think all of the posters with a true interest in design, development and zoning, recognize that there are some innnovate suburban developments that use community concepts, but theses are the vast minority.

Equating disdain for suburban development to racial or religious intolerance is a canard of the worst sort. Sorry, but advocating sustainable land use policies is not intolerance of any person. It is intolerance of a system that is destroying the environment and culture. In my book we should be intolerant of those things.