Red Light District

Not what you think, but the sprawl-burbs are a cluster of stop lights that townships are hard pressed to stop. The townships want development, but the developer wants their own entrance and marker to a shopping center. These continuous sets of red-lights are a testimony to growth without a solid master plan on the part of municipalities. Creating a vision for development that fits within the constraints of a master plan will yield a much easily navigated township. Now that there is time to handle the developers, due to the recession, I believe that smarter, greener, more walkable communities will be the trend in a new urban fashion.