The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World
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How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, itmeans creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences and a communitygarden. He was inspired by one of our era's  most scathing critics of suburbansprawl: James Howard Kunstler. We'll hear from both about what happens whenyou try to remedy what Kunstler calls “the greatest misallocation of resources in thehistory of the world.”
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