Q. What do you make of polls that say that large numbers of Baby Boomers and Millennials are interested in, if not moving back to the city, then at least living more “urban” lifestyles?
A. I suspect that if you took a poll of Americans you would find that most people would like to be thin. We are an obese nation. The question is, is this something people will act on?
I’m simply not sure what those polls really mean — whether they’re wishful thinking or whether they’re a significant change that people will act on.
19 December 2011
Rybczynski interview
ThinkProgress recently interviewed Witold Rybczynski about the future of suburbs and cities. As you can see from this quote, he doesn't accept unproven conventional wisdom as fact:
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