Wow, so Jefferson invented the city? I guess he must have been in some reincarnated form when he destroyed the natural beauty of America, since cities and urban sprawl (think open sewers) had existed for five or six thousand years, back to ancient Iraq. So, I guess Jefferson was around then, and he also must have designed Athens and Rome and all the other urban sprawls.
With a growing population, do you really think people would always live on their individual small farms? Happy I don't live in one, but large cities are, and have been a necessity for centuries.
Some here are looking really, really hard to find some spurious grounds for slamming Jefferson.
Calm down. Y'all don't live i the parts that are "blessed" with the national survey. You can't efficiently farm one square mile these days. Jefferson is a great guy and we love him to bits out here. But, the 40 acres and a mule thing just doesn't work out here in the West. It tore up the land and made it very inefficient for farming on the scale we need to feed ourselves. Food prices are going up as we have to farm around the WalMarts and big box restaurants, etc. Heck Obama wants to tax cow farts now! Wouldn't have to if folks would just live in those 6,000 year old cities instead of turning precious farm land into Mc Mansions!