Over the years the American longing to form their own communities free from European -style clusters of apartment renters shuffling to and from work on state-devised public transport lines, confined to nearby schools and shops, has been possible because of widespread private ownership of cars. Like household appliances, cars have as well liberated women to join the workforce, allowing more flexible scheduling to fit each family’s needs. Mothers can work and still do the shopping, drop the kids off at schools and to their countless activities. Urban planners -- likely singles who had a semester abroad and been bedazzled by a brief, limited, and blinkered view of life abroad, and who harbor contempt for the American way of life (“ticky tacky houses” in suburbs with lawns) -- assiduously work with equally biased political elites to make it increasingly impossible. In China, we can see in one small development, called Jackson Hole, a community on the...(Read Full Article)