A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic
I'd like to see a little more from new urbanists than for them to endlessly restate their thesis.  Yes, okay, we've now seen the 1,000th reiteration of the idea that dense mixed use residential/commercial developments have a number of advantages.How do we actually get there?  Is "just" changing zoning actually enough?  Is there a case study?  Over what time-frame?  With what downsides?NIMBYism isn't a magical spell cast by Satan: it's an organic outgrowth of people's incentives.  What is the way around it?  I don't believe that then 1,001st reiteration of the advantages of mixed use developments is the answer.  What kind of compromises work to keep NIMBYism from obstructing all of these developments?