It is a series of private-house lots of one to two acres, strung together along streets — the most reactionary type of planning there is, wasteful of land and discouraging to a sense of the public realm.
The most recent such city, Milton Keynes, is shockingly wasteful of land and infrastructure.
Such plantings can have very high yields on a tree basis after 10 or 15 years, but are wasteful of land in the early years.
Even the centre Olly Barkley mixed the good with the wasteful: he landed two penalties including a monster effort from 55 metres but did not obviously do enough to suggest to the watching Brian Smith that the national management have missed a trick.
These standards, applied uniformly across cities are unnecessarily costly for developing countries because they lead to wasteful and inefficient land use, expensive infrastructure and long-term maintenance.
Almost three times this amount, the group estimated, could eventually be introduced into waterways and the oceans as a result of emission and wasteful practices on land.
Yet it is a wasteful way of using land.
Brooks thinks that building on new green field land is wasteful when there are so many existing urban and suburban areas - brown field sites - that are readily available.
Last Saturday, two days before the men went to prison for a five-year sentence, residents of Burns held a peaceful rally to protest against what many saw as a harsh and unjust conviction that symbolized the federal government's mistreatment of local ranchers and its wasteful use of public lands.
They were based on the need for Big Ag to sell products, and so successful was that campaign that "intensive" farming — which is truly intensively chemical, intensively wasteful and intensively destructive of land, air, animals, even diet — has become ubiquitous.
