Urban planners and developers inhabit fictional world

From Neal Stephenson's Anathem, evidence that the same crappy urban planners and designers that build suburban communities have infected the fictional world of Abre:

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new markget devoted to selling T-shirts, and other objects with pictures of the old market.  Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

I'm guessing James Howard Kunstler, author of such great books such as Home From Nowhere and The Goegraphy of Nowhere would probably agree.