Density Is Not A Conspiracy

An obvious bit of table-setting that it may not occur to us to spell out

Density is not a conspiracy. I said this, I think in a conversation at a happy hour to another urbanist, and he sort of laughed and said, yeah, of course it isn’t!

I mean, that’s obvious to us, but it struck me that that’s the underlying source of a lot of the suspicion I run into talking about this stuff with ordinary people. There seems to be an assump…