Thomas Jefferson: The Founding Father Of Sprawl?by Leonardo Vasquezhttp://www.planetizen.com/node/18841
Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of the "Gentleman Farmer" an ideal of an educated agriculturalist. By contrast, he followed Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the belief that cities do more harm than good when it comes to mores and the arts:
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."
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