Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
US population is expected to reach 438M by 2050 twenty-six years from now. That's a 39% population increase. At present immigration rates, 82% of the growth is expected to be due to immigration. All these extra people have to live somewhere. Detroit isn't the best example of a growing population sprawling but across the country it is a primary factor behind sprawl. 39% more transportation, housing, recreational space, and everything else will be needed.
You do understand that the suburban sprawl pattern is very much unsustainable, right? Density allows for services and protection to be delivered at much more efficiently, dollar and man power wise. A place like Clarkston might have amazing, huge homes, but the fact that they are a mile apart makes every trash pickup that much more expensive.