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urban crowding—although it is one of the ironies of modern land speculation and development that this is what the American ex-urbanite often winds up with.
This official espousal of high density development in the teeth of a firmly entrenched American preference for large-lot, single-family dwellings is not only an economic problem, it is a serious planning contradiction that must, be resolved if people are to have the sort of confidence in the planning process that is necessary for its success.
A FINAL thought: The overwhelming majority of citizens living in rural Piedmont Virginia do not want it to change, if they can possibly help it. They want it to remain rural and “open” and uncluttered by excessive residential and commercial development. How can this overwhelming preference be reconciled with the eontinous pressure on the part of many elected-officials to accommodate growtti—their only reservation being that this growth occur in an “orderly” fashion?
If a way of life is obliterated or warped out of recognition, what difference does it really make, except perhaps financially, whether this destruction is done in an “orderly” manner or haphazardly? The end result remains the same.D
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