[Alberta's Child]

Orfield, who is a Democrat, is also a passionate advocate of stronger metropolitan government as the answer to the challenges facing central cities and all varieties of suburbs.

That flies in the face of an interesting article on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal this week, which indicated that the large, centralized government in Los Angeles is so incompetent that large swaths of the city will be voting in November on secession measures. The article pointed out that smaller California cities in the 100,000 population range do a much better job of controlling crime, running schools, etc.

[balrog666]

That flies in the face of an interesting article on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal this week, which indicated that the large, centralized government in Los Angeles is so incompetent that large swaths of the city will be voting in November on secession measures.

Excellent point. If the new urban planners had faith in their "vision", they would just invite the suburbs to join in their expansion of urban control instead of forcing them into the yoke via state and federal coercion.