Beware the planners................

 In most high-income countries—including Canada, Australia, and the United States—suburban living still predominates.  Among Americans under 35 who buy homes, four-fifths choose single-family detached housing. . . . Since 2010, a net 1.8 million people have moved away from the urban core counties of major metropolitan area, mainly to lower-density counties where single family houses are the norm.

     Despite the continuing appeal of suburbia, planners, academics, and pundits sneer at this lifestyle.  "The suburbs are about boredom, and obviously some people like being bored and plain and unpredictable," said Elizabeth Farrelly, an Australian urbanist and architectural critic.  She continued: "I'm happy for them . . . even if their suburbs are destroying the world."

-Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class