Libertarian Planning Principles Debate

Participants in an Internet email discussion list recently engaged in a heated debate on the impact of libertarian principles on urban planning in the United States.

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January 20, 2004, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

PLANetizen presents an edited version of the original email debate, which centered on the "The Lone Mountain Compact". Is the "smart growth" movement really a set of planning/design principles, or a political ideology at odds with the principles of free choice and decentralized decisionmaking that both New Urbanism and the Lone Mountain Compact stand for?

Thanks to David Gest

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Monday, January 19, 2004 in Planetizen

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