The Conservative Case for Urbanism

Republicans may have an uneasy relationship to global warming, but some are finding reasons to embrace government projects close to environmentalists' hearts -- like public transit.

Policies in favor of dense development shouldn't be viewed on a left-right spectrum and certainly needn't be filtered through culture-war rhetoric, the panelists said. In fact, one doesn't have to be concerned about climate change at all in order to support such policies; values of fiscal conservatism and localism, both key to Republican ideology, can be better realized through population-dense development than through sprawl. Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - Sep. 6, 2008

The article is dismissive of global warming skeptics many of whom are scientifically well informed with a very strong case. I live in a high rise in Chicago and use mass transit. But for most people mass transit is not a possibility without moving most of the population to dense cities. So the argument is brainless.

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