Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on The Orlando Sentinel

by Kaitlin Hopkins 10/14/2009

"'Someone who grew up living in 2,500 square feet with a driveway leading up to the front door isn't going to downsize to 850 square feet until he's ready for assisted living," says Joel Kotkin, a scholar on urban development who wrote The City: A Global History. "The new urbanists convinced the idiot development community there was going to be this massive move that never happened.'"

Joel on The Orlando Sentinel

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