TrickyRicky
Senior Member
Actually, I'm not as interested in the commercial, residential mix as the ownership division. I think this is the essence of the Jacob-ian (sorry) argument. Architects and Planners think they can out-smart the difficiencies of mega-block or master planned zones through smart ideas and good design. What they are missing fundamentally is that it is the ownership structure that matters. Design, sorry to say is highly secondary. In my opinion the bigger the lot, the larger the zone master-planned, the more likely it will be to fail in the future. This will be as true for the top international designers as the worst suburban development hacks. While you will be able to find individual examples to refute this opinion, as a general trend I still believe it to be true.