This op-ed piece by David Brooks in today's NY Times:
The time has finally come, some writers are predicting, when Americans will finally repent. They’ll move back to the urban core. They will ride more bicycles, have smaller homes and tinier fridges and rediscover the joys of dense community — and maybe even superior beer.
America will, in short, finally begin to look a little more like Amsterdam.
What did he say?!!! America looking more like Amsterdam?! Or . . . maybe not. Brooks, rightly so, goes on to explain that Amsterdam does not fit with the cultural values of most Americans: ease and convenience, always moving (outwards), "restless against limits." No, indeed, these are not Dutch values, but that is not to say that Americans couldn't learn a thing or two.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/opinion/17brooks.html?_r=1
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