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Get used to it: suburbia's not going away, no matter what critics say or do.

The American Enterprise

| January 01, 2005 | Kotkin, Joel | COPYRIGHT 2005 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

For the better part of the last half century, urbanists, planners, and environmentalists have railed against suburbia, and the dreaded trend of cities to "sprawl" outward from the old city core. Yet despite many attempts to discourage such growth, the pattern continues--not only in America but in nearly all modern countries. The battle against sprawl is over. Sprawl won.

Since 1950, over 90 percent of metropolitan growth in America has taken place in the suburbs. The biggest reason for this triumph is not the "conspiracy" of big oil companies and freeway builders oft cited by enviro-activists. The powerful impulse at the root of suburbanization is the simple ...

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