you will catch me in some inconsistencies, in that then i was not so sold on density, i was fine with American suburbanization (even if i liked cities), and thought there were few barriers to mcmansions as far as the interstate would go. 1/

now i oppose mcmansion-land (both environmental and sociological reasons now strike me as more compelling than then), so what looked like a decent, achievable, mostly private sector path then no longer strikes me as desirable. /fin