Editor’s note: This article is reprinted with permission from the author’s Substack blog, “Place and People.” The original article appeared on May 20, 2025. Since the birth of the New Urbanism movement in the 1980s, those in the urbanist community have held the suburbs in high contempt for the ecological and sociological havoc they wreak. The critiques are largely justified: A suburban geographical structure locks in car dependence, leading to less beautiful neighborhoods and increase...
