Such BS. The only things that central planners "accomodate" are their own fat salaries. Cities grow and contract on their own regardless of what the planners do.
Not quite. A city's infrastructure requires long-range planning and wise investment. A million more people would need water, sewers, transit, schooling, and medical care. These things don't expand and contract automatically with the population the way shopping and entertainment do. New Yorkers today are living off the long-term vision of the planners who built the water system, bridges, tunnels, highways, harbors, airports, schools, and public parks. Planning may not always get it right, but lack of planning always gets it wrong.
not new york city, development here has for decades, been the result of private development coupled with government planning.