Historic honor: Prominent writer touts Houston as the next wave of great American Cities

Have a problem with Houston’s notorious suburban sprawl? Better get used to it — this is type of urban development is the future.

So says demographer Joel Kotkin in a recent piece on The Daily Beast, in which he explains that “low-density, car-dominated, heavily suburbanized areas with small central cores likely represent the next wave of great American cities” — pointing to Houston as a prime example.