Do you live in the USA? Do you know how notorious we are for paving over land with strip mall parking lots that will never be anywhere near full? How we run from our problems rather than solving them? How we move further and further away from the city, create massive traffic from the long commutes, and in turn move further and further away again? How county folks strike down and red tape high density apartments anywhere near their neighborhood, even vote against light rail and trollies because they're afraid the overhead wires will "lower their property value". We create neighborhoods that require a 3 mile drive just to get to your neighbors house a few yards away: http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/10/the-great-cul-de-sac-pr... We're really bad at city planning.