Bill Lindeke, writing for Streets.mn:
“I was surprised when I got to my buddy’s place because, though it was in the middle of nowhere, my friend’s house wasn’t a house per se. Rather, he’d bought an attached townhome that was part of a long row of similar complexes in a brand new greenfield development, complete with sidewalks and quasi-porches and a pleasant almost grid-like street network.
Looking out at the sidewalks, I turned and asked my friend, “So where’s do you walk to?”
He looked at me blankly. “Um. People walk their dogs?”
The useless sidewalks in my friend’s strange middle-of-nowhere quasi-urban neighborhood got me thinking, so I started looking around for places where you have relatively urban densities, but no urban diversity. There are lots of these places, and not just in the suburbs. It doesn’t make any sense, but there you have it. Let’s meet some of them!”
We must unlearn what we have learned with our failed suburban experiment.
