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The contrarian myth
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 2:52pm
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For some reason, defenders of the sprawl status quo are often referred to as "contrarian." For example, if you google "Joel Kotkin" and "contrarian" you get 498 hits. ...
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