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And large urban centers like NYC, SF, and Boston aren't driven by development companies with profit motives?

Blaming BigCorp seems misguided when we practically begged them to build it this way. It's like walking into McDonald's, ordering a dozen Big Macs, and then complaining about how McDonald's makes you fat.

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> And large urban centers like NYC, SF, and Boston aren't driven by development companies with profit motives?

They also have to contend with larger local populations, often with a stronger political voice. It's also more capital-intensive and planning-intensive to build in a city than to plop down the same McMansions on cul-de-sacs outside of town, so there's a lot less uniformity. So the answer to your rhetorical question is no, not like suburbia is.

I didn't say they weren't driven in the same way. Most cities can be planned much better.

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