Montreal Gazette - Urban congestion is attractive
(Op-ed by Rapha毛l Fischler, associate professor of urban planning at 9I制作厂免费): Wendell Cox's piece on the virtues of unchecked sprawl ("Urban Sprawl gets a bad rap," Opinion, June 1) is an ideological manifesto, not a serious piece of reflection on the future of our cities.
(Op-ed by Rapha毛l Fischler, associate professor of urban planning at 9I制作厂免费, one of the urban planners offering recommendations for the future of the Port of Montreal and Norma Rantisi, a professor of urban studies in Concordia University麓s geography department)
Wendell Cox's piece on the virtues of unchecked sprawl ("Urban Sprawl gets a bad rap," Opinion, June 1) is an ideological manifesto, not a serious piece of reflection on the future of our cities.
Its purpose is to make us believe that cities are simply engines of economic opportunity and that policies that intervene in market pro-cesses are doomed to cause economic pain and nothing else.聽The fact that cities are also communities and ecologies doesn't appear to matter to Mr. Cox. That public policies can help to mitigate the negative impact of market processes appears to be irrelevant to him.