i'm an urbanist, but even to me, "experiment" sounds needlessly antagonistic. it wasn't an experiment, but rather a deliberate set of decisions to give citizens

i'm an urbanist, but even to me, "experiment" sounds needlessly antagonistic. it wasn't an experiment, but rather a deliberate set of decisions to give citizens what they wanted despite the (possibly foreseeable) problems. government subsidization was manageable when out-migration didn't demand the resources it does now, in terms of standards/regulations (roads, drainage, electricity, water, sewage, internet, etc.), process (bureaucracy, legal challenges), graft/corruption, and the sizeable population now in (and moving to) the suburbs/exurbs, all in a robustly growing and more equitable economy. we've since realized that costs go up superlinearly, which makes it a bad use of resources, so instead we advocate denser urban areas, which provide economies of scale on the infrastructure dollar.