More Unintended Consequences of Central Planning - Suburbs Burn as Swedes Reject TODs*

The great socialist urban planners in Sweden have brought on more than planned. The plan was for social diversity and "earth friendly," highly concentrated living in *TDOs: Transit Oriented Developments.
We get a lot of this "we know better than you" planning proselytized on NPR and PBS. 
We can see its results in action in Sweden's Muslim Riots right now. m/r

Suburbs Burn as Swedes Reject TODs | The Antiplanner
5-28-13 excerpt
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Instead, they were in high-density housing projects that Sweden built in an effort to promote transit ridership, which planners today would call “transit-oriented developments.” Most Swedes, however, refused to live in these projects, so they became home to Sweden’s second-class citizenry, namely immigrant and often Muslim workers.

American urban planners who want to follow Europe’s example of emphasizing multi-family housing and transit over single-family homes and automobiles should look closely at Sweden’s example. Though Sweden is often praised as an ideal social democracy, the riots reveal a dark underbelly, namely that the country has come to depend on immigrant workers who take second-class jobs and live in second-class housing and are forced to use second-class transportation.

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