The best way to accommodate Cascadia’s growth is with more development, in tandem with infrastructure such as transportation and business.

“It’s a question of where,” architect/critic Witold Rybczynski said this morning on KUOW (begins at 14:00), noting that the U.S. adds more than a million houses a year. “If you create a village, people will start to act like villagers.”

Rybczynski’s sounds like he’s advocating suburban development, or at least singing its praises compared to urban centers. The trick is incentives to steer development. Sprawl doesn’t take into account the larger costs in traffic and the environment.

The LA Times mostly panned his book. The Denver Post interviewed him.