In Praise of the Tiny Truck.

Don’t plan your city to fit your vehicles. Plan for vehicles that fit your city.

This week The Economist published a story about how some American farmers are choosing to import small—indeed, teeny tiny—trucks from Japan, rather than pay up to $80,000 for a pick-up from Ford or GM.

“They’re amazingly useful,” one farmer, who’d purchased a 1997 Honda Acty, was quoted as saying. At less than five-feet wide, it could easily fit into his…