A great new book was just published by Christopher B. Leinberger called “The Option of Urbanism:  Investing in a New American Dream“.  Mr. Leinberger lays out a compelling case for how urbanism will triumph over sub-urbanism.  Some of his finest points speak to how government policy has pushed the country to where we stand now:  unabaited suburban sprawl, an expensive to maintain road system, an underfunded mass transit infrastructure and more investment in the deprecriating asset that is the automobile.

Anyway, the book is great.