[rexgallorum2]

I think we are currently watching a number of cultural currents and counter-currents (re)emerging, and the increasing interest in new urbanism and walkable, mid-density, mixed-use neighborhoods is one of them. You could tie it to a broader rejection of modernism and capitalist realism and a dozen other -isms that have defined the look and feel and very substance of life in the US since 1945, and an increasing tendency to look to the past for traces of alternative presents/futures that never came into being (see Mark Fisher). Hipster retro fetishism is only the tip of the iceberg.