[rickydroll]

Urban, suburban, and rural spaces all have different pluses and minuses. People have different needs for living spaces throughout their lives, and I feel it's important to recognize and acknowledge that and support them in finding the right place to live.

To me, the fundamental reason behind suburban failure is the lack of affordable housing in the city, forcing city mice to move out to suburbia, bringing their city mice habits and expectations with them. Build more housing in cities, and suburban problems will work themselves out.

[stetrain]

Yes. Letting cities be actually dense would make suburbs work better.

But we tend to resist upzoning existing low-density development that is now in the density gravity well of the expanding city, keeping housing prices artificially inflated.