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Early in his career, O'Toole worked with environmental groups to oppose the U.S. National Forest Service's subsidized sales of public forest timber to the logging industry. His book ''Reforming the Forest Service'' built on his experience during this effort, and proposed a number of free-market solutions to management of U.S. public land and timber. He has written analyses of the usage and development plans of a number of U.S. national forests, working with state environmental agencies and other groups. In the 1990s , O'Toole emerged as an outspoken critic of '' New Urbanist '' design and '' Smart Growth '' strategies. O'Toole contends that these development strategies—in which regulatory measures and tax incentives are employed to encourage denser development, more efficient land use, and greater use of public transportation—ignore the desires and preferences of most housing consumers and ultimately waste public funds. His 1996 book ''The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths'' was written as a detailed critique of these styles of planning. He continues to advocate for Free-market solutions to urban planning and design in his writing and teaching. He has campaigned against smart growth policies and Light Rail systems in several U.S. State s and in Winnipeg, Manitoba . O'Toole has held fellowships at Yale University , and served as a visiting professor at the University Of California At Berkeley and Utah State University . PUBLICATIONS
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