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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cirrus who wrote (99787)	8/19/2011 12:59:12 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Let's put it this way........before Reagan and his adoration of free markets, there was a lot more urban planning then there is now. My first Masters was in Public Administration/Urban Planning and we studied plans that had been set to funnel growth throughout the country but they were never followed. When you think about it, the way we grow American cities is so helter skelter and wasteful that when future historians look at what we have done......esp. from the perspective of less natural resources which is inevitable in the future........they will think we were drunken sailors on a spending spree, using a credit card that has no limit. Think about it. We are abandoning Detroit while we build new cities in the desert. LA is a joke.......it has a semi desert climate that averages 13 inches of rain per year. It has to import water from N. CA, over 600 miles away through viaducts in a state that is very seismically active. It makes absolutely no sense. And San Diego and the OC get even less rain than LA. There are close to 20 million people in S. CA. Phoenix is even more crazy.....its in the middle of the desert and gets only a 8 inches of rain per year. Have you seen the videos of dust storms in Phoenix? What a well kept secret...........I didn't know they got them until this year. One dust storm and my butt would have been out of there in a flash. IMO we need to manage growth better and do it in such a way that it minimizes the impact on resources......esp. water. The US once had a comprehensive national urban plan? It's been more than 30 years since the U.S. had a comprehensive national urban plan.