Job Sprawl Revisited [Brookings' central planning rationale]

Brookings ^ | 4/6/9

[NativeNewYorker]

...Currently, members of the 111th Congress and the new administration, along with leaders at the state and local level, are crafting policies with the potential to directly impact metropolitan development patterns and, by extension, the location of employment. The recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will result in billions of dollars of new spending in areas including transportation and infrastructure, housing, energy, and job creation. If used wisely by federal, state, and local leaders, these investments could help spur cohesive planning and policies that connect decisions around affordable housing, transportation, and jobs to foster more compact and sustainable development. If not, these investments could accelerate low-density exurban development and exacerbate the range of challenges associated with unchecked sprawl. Clearly, the spatial distribution of employment within a region intersects with a whole host of policy areas. These issues do not exist in independent silos, though too often policy decisions have been made as if they do.

Understanding the changing location of jobs within U.S. regions represents a necessary step towards implementing more cohesive, comprehensive policies for economically productive, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable metropolitan growth.

[NativeNewYorker]

This isn't subtle. They want to micromanage every aspect of commerce.

[Oldexpat]

They want to return to “Milltown” enviroment, where workers lived in tiny row houses with a walk to the Mill for employment.
They just refuse to acknowledge that the free will of people and the market can sort out a lot of this.

[rockinqsranch]

Round us up, and place us in a corral. Eliminate the Suburban lifestyle. Confine us to the cities. End the commutes contributing to Globull Warming. Control of the subjects.