Actually it seems to be easy to argue against what is he says because it requires a vote by people that seem to disagree quite often. Because we are still here and he is still considered extreme. I see the video had an Ad by BMW at the beginning. Looking at the migration patterns from the places he proposes to places like Atlanta and Texas shows people aren't listening much either. He represents the idea of ludite in a world of jets and bullet trains. The places he doesn't feel we should care about don't care about going back to the what he deams about. Cities and States aren't flocking to his lectures and would never give something he designed the International design award would they? So yes you can disagree with Mr. Oscar the crouch They used to call people like him Ludite and yet he uses a Microsoft power point show to decry technology? I have been to Monterey, cute but they don't even build what he wants. Maybe he should move to somewhere he can find what we as a nation don't seem to be interested in, unless he wants to run for office and see if any of us would follow his musings? But wait, we are still he and he is still wrong so after all, it doesn't matter how he feels about how we build our cities and suburbs. They used to call what he says spitting in the wind, in fact it is still spitting in the wind as long as the majority are willing to do things differently than the discontented. 8 years since that lecture and still we build cities and fund that building just like we have for the last 60 years. Places like Detroit and Cleveland are tearing down city blocks and places like LA and Atlanta are spreading out. He may have been preaching to the chiour but they must not have shared the message.


PS: I should have added that I wasn't saying he doesn't have a point. Only that the point is easy to disagree with when he says we shouldn't care about what the majority does care about because the majority will add to the economy making the little sidewalk touristy trap places where people can meet and drink rather than work and play possible. He keeps saying the changes will come next year and then the next year and then the next. The problem is he never took into account that just maybe the majority like things the way they are and so next year there won't be anywhere near the changes he proposes. Portland Oregon still only has 6 percent commuting by bike and they have been at it a lot longer than the changes he proposed.