Every year, some 20,000 new residents settle around Seattle. Mainly well-educated professionals, they are drawn to the area by good jobs, good schools, and the prospects of the good life sailing on Puget Sound, skiing in the high Cascades, hiking in the Olympic ranges. But the cherished countryside is disappearing, being swallowed up by grim housing developments whose sewers overflow with every heavy rain, scarred by highways that are often choked with cars, and blotched by grey industrial "parks." This is one toll of urbanization, and the price is being paid by prosperous cities across the U.S. Unlike most other...
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