There’s a good opinion piece by David Brooks in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Brooks argues that infrastructure spending should create new community hubs to capitalize on current trends to enhance community and battle the exurban sprawl that dominated the development of the 80s and 90s.
“People overshot the mark. They moved to the exurbs because they wanted space and order. But once there, they found that they were missing community and social bonds. So in the past years there has been a new trend. Meeting places are popping up across the suburban landscape.”
