"New urbanism" ultimately wont work as is either, its a decent starting point but not even close to the solution.Until its possible to have food production,jobs, and living space within close proximity of each other we will continue to have problems, and until the cheap energy input weve been squandering comes to an end either forced on us by geology or voluntarily, the needed changes arent gonna happen.Todays suburbs are literally going to be tomorrows wasteland and farmland if it can be reclaimed at all, weve destroyed and paved over massive amounts of viable farmland, topsoil just doesnt miraculously appear overnight.Right now we are in the tail end of a spending and credit orgy still wasting resources on an unsustainable lifestyle with no real value, the down slope of the age of oil is in our faces yet few even see it, and the way down will happen much quicker than the way up because we have become much better and faster at using these resources up.Once the actual realization hits of whats going on there will likely be a massive effort to make corrections for our mistakes of the last 100yrs, this in turn will even accelerate resource usage even further, but its like chasing a train after its left the station.Im not optimistic at this point that this is going to be a smooth process at all, especially since most people are in denial and govt has taken the "last man standing approach".Its not a "doomsday" scenario at all, although it could easily get that way, but Id lay big money on the odds that places like Las Vegas for example have maybe 5yrs left before it starts changing into a ghost town.Other cities with similar problems will end up the same.