In his erudite critique of urban planning, Randal O'Toole suggests that governments rely on regulation as a way of obtaining the same goals that socialism seeks: efficiency, equality, and control of externalities. He further suggests that urban planning has represented "creeping socialism" since 1920. Moreover, O'Toole implicates urban planning in a series of fads, most of which have turned into disasters. Ironically, he astutely identifies the failure of past urban planning fads as the genesis of the latest planning fads. After considering O'Toole's thesis, CollegeAvenueIndy.org detects the latest planning fads: "urbanism", "neo-traditionalism", and "smart growth" as the key drivers behind Indy's new found obsession with Transportation Oriented Development ("TOD") and the Red Line. See the link below for a summary of O'Toole's book.