How many of you would like to live here?

Tom Monaghan has received a lot of attention for his plans to create munity in Florida in conjunction with the founding of a new Roman Catholic university: “The panying town will provide single- and multi-family housing in a wide range of styles and prices, along mercial and office facilities to modate the businesses and organizations needed to support this major academic institution.”

Here’s what Katie Couric had to say in an interview with Monaghan about the town (MP3 audio here, RealMedia here, WindowsMedia here):

Some of the values, depending on your perspective… may be deemed wholesome, but in other ways, I think, people will see munity as eschewing diversity and promoting intolerance….Do you think the tenets of munity might result in de facto segregation as a result of some of the beliefs that are being espoused by the majority of the residents there?…You can understand how people would hear some of these things and be like, wow, this is really infringing on civil liberties and freedom of speech and right to privacy and all sorts of basic tenets that this country was founded on. Right?

David T. Koyzis gives “a (severely) qualified defence of the suburbs” here.

What are your thoughts about what might be called, “The New Suburbanism”?