[DoreenMichele]

The New Urbanist movement tried to recreate dense, mixed use, walkable neighborhoods like were the norm in the past. It was an uphill battle. They would take their plans to city hall and get told it could not be approved. They would then carefully scrutinize the zoning laws, rename some roads and other features as something else, rinse and repeat until something resembling their vision could get approved.

In most parts of the US, you can no longer build those dense, walkable, mixed use neighborhoods that make it convenient to live without a car.