Here's a gentle critical response to the Age article:
http://www.onegreener.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Response-Flawed-design-for-a-perfect-city.html&Itemid=203
"Enemies of Progress" has been set up to argue for development without prefixes. One of the most important tasks today, is to undermine the fear-generating perception that human agency, modernity, growth, materialism, want, development, experimentation, technology, infrastructure, political debate and critical engagement - in a word, progress, is a problem.