Yield to New Ideas and Research

I was just going through my photos/textures (I'm a landscape architect....), and I thought it ever so appropriate to post this image.  It represents the bad direction we have pursued in city/transportation planning and design over the past 50 years,  and in many instances, continue to pursue.  

But we need to stop and think about and evaluate all the problems we are causing my continuing down the same wrong way, and think about the future, rather than the immediate gratitude and economic benefit.  Instead of continuing down the wrong way, we need to YIELD to new ideas, or in some instances, old ideas, cast aside in prior decades as being far-fetched.  To evolve and advance as a society, we must realize the benefits of change--economic, social, environmental, health, etc.  We can do this, the American public only needs to become exposed to the creative possibilities that are being thought up in design and planning fields, which span the realms of sociology, ecology, economics, architecture, community design, park design, alternative transportation ideas, housing and affordability, green construction.  The list goes on.