Comment by mberning

If you can envision a suburb in which people are allowed to have a grocery store, hardware store, pub, etc. intermingled with the housing, then the suburb gets a lot better. You can walk or ride a bike to get 90% of the things you need for your day to day life. What makes the burbs miserable is zoning which puts all the people on one side of the town, and all the amenities on the other. Then all the infrastructure to move people from point A to point B by car. Because the way it is built is impractical and unsafe for pedestrians or cyclists.