ROBERT BRUEGMANN: KEYNOTE SPEAKER COMMENTS BY DIEGO RAMIREZ

摘要

The coupling of images of a congested Tokyo motorway with a free-flowing Kansas City expressway epitomise the kind of rhetoric that has erected the edifice of a world wide anti-sprawl campaign. Contradicting traditional arguments against urban sprawl, an average Kansas City commute in a low-density landscape, as it turns out, is about half of an average commute in the closely packed City of Tokyo.