There needs to be some sort of balance I think. There are limits to either extreme. Imagine if we forced, say, Hawaii to accommodate everyone who wanted to li

There needs to be some sort of balance I think. There are limits to either extreme. Imagine if we forced, say, Hawaii to accommodate everyone who wanted to live there? There are limits on the carrying capacity of an area. I would love to let the market sort it out(sans all subsidies, property tax schemes(ahem, prop 13), etc), but I'm afraid the market will push things just to the south of being livable, and we'll build cities with poor quality of life. That said, ecological concerns will drive more and more of us to the cities, and we need to accommodate those folks. I hope we figure out a way to do it while maximizing quality of life for everyone.