[Diana in Wisconsin]

"It's hard for us today to really grasp the nature of city life a hundred years ago, when millions of urban dwellers were obliged to endure cramped and unsanitary tenements, dangerous traffic, pollution-choked streets, and deadly factories. The cleaner, greener, safer, more private neighborhoods that most metropolitan residents now live in would astound our great-grandparents.

Good article. Thanks for the link.

The above always slays me! The "Urbanites" really do not remember what city life was like way back when. And yet, their goal seems to be to get everyone OUT of the country and the 'burbs and force 'em back into the city.

And then they'll whine and cry that all those people moving back into the city ruined "The Urban Experience" for them, LOL!

[Lorianne]

I really don't think the goal is to force everyone to live in one way.

If that were true, then you could say the current zoning codes are trying to get everyone to live in cul-de-sac surburbs. That may have been the effect due to lack of choice, but it was not the intent.

The point is that there are choices and options. Then everyone can live at the density and the style of land develpment they want.

The people who wanted to live in a new house in a traditionally laid out neighborhood, until recently, were not allowed to do because such neighborhoods were ILLEGAL to build.