The New Urbanism is Urban Colonialism; and their “vibrant” urban centers require that rural lands be used for food production, recreation, and the unwanted.
They’re bringing civilization to the rural natives by destroying their cultural matrix and setting them adrift in an elitist society that has no use for them; except as consumables.
In Tompkins County’s Cornell led planning “vision” of the future — the county’s rural communities will no longer exist.