Did your grandparents ever regale you with stories of their youth, living in a village where most things were within walking distance? Or maybe you grew up in such a place yourself. Though small town life still exists in many places, the growth of the post-World War II suburbs means that a great many people did not grow up in a walkable village and probably do not live in one now.
Once seen as the ideal place to raise a family, the tide of popular opinion has turned against the suburbs today, and we hear now that they represent undesirable real estate "sprawl," leading to the unnecessary destruction of green space, wasteful use of energy (read: too much dependence on cars), and a psychologically unhealthy sense of isolation.
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