The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.