“Even leaving aside climate change, very soon the price of energy will make the dispersed, unconnected, low-density city-building pattern impossibly costly. Those jurisdictions and businesses that first create livable, workable, post-peak-oil metropolitan regions are the ones that will win the future.”

Louise A. Mozingo, To Rethink Sprawl, Start With Offices, New York Times

Well it seems obvious to me, but then I don’t commute every day to a suburban business campus. Mozingo wonderfully starts out with the history of the corporate suburban campus, the rationale and proliferation. Then he predicts their demise. Lovely.