Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics - NYTimes.com

This is a deeply misleading and incoherent piece interlaced with some fascinating questions and observations.  The author says that "authoritarian" regimes are needed to remake large cities with large scale public works but all the examples of large scale urban public works are from democracies! (UK, Netherlands ...)  What authoritarian country has built an sustainable urban area?  China?  Please.  Just because China has built some large scale eco projects doesnt mean that the cities  are sustainable, far from it. 

Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics - NYTimes.com