Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Urban Archipelago

A coworker pointed me towards this essay on the Red and Blue State divide. It gets the analysis right, that the Democrats win the cities and the Republicans win the country/suburbs. That is where the smart stops.

The whole rest of the essay is complete foolishness. My coworker showed it to me because he thought it was satire. They obviously have no understanding of how infrastructure scales with population density. Their vision of a new selfish form of urban liberalism is also misguided. Read it if you must, but unlike my coworker I thought it was just sad.

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