i'm not advocating stopping sprawl, at least not in this conversation. in a US context, the argument that capital discipline / landbanking is a housing constraint is mostly about being a constraint on sprawl, so implicitly maybe i'm criticizing the blocking of sprawl. 1/

(i do want to encourage dense rather than less-dense new development. i'd prefer public action to build new dense places rather than private restriction of "sprawl'. i don't know if there are restrictions of low-density sprawl i'd support, but the experience of eg Boulder wld make me cautious.) /fin