Posted on 23 November 2008. The essense of New Suburbanism is to
support a clean, but wider human footprint – which is anathema
to much of conventional environmentalist wisdom. In many parts
of the world, such as within the state of California, there is
abundant open space. California, especially within its vast
interior, has hundreds upon thousands of virtually vacant square
miles of rolling foothills, rangeland, forests, farms and
fields. The Golden State is a whopping 158,000 square miles in
size, with only 36 million people, most of them already crammed
quite amicably within reasonably dense urban areas. California
will always have plenty of available land, and the mantra that
the personal residences of humans must be consigned to ever
higher densities is not natural law or indisputably moral. A
wider human footprint is not necessarily anathema to the health
of the environment. post resumes below image |Low density
communities can spread along roads and highways, with small
scale commercial agriculture an