Call me a crunchy con, but I’ve long been fascinated by New Urbanism, the movement to develop more traditional, human-scale communities instead of the soul-sapping sprawl of a place like Manassas, where I used to live. Conservatives have long been suspicious of it because it attracts a lot of tree-huggers and the like, but William Lind makes a case for a conservative, free-market New Urbanism in the new issue of The American Conservative (subscribe to NR!). And in any case, the godfather of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, is deeply conservative in his worldview, as this interview suggests from a few years ago in The American Enterprise (subscribe to NR!).