So the suburbs are "progress"?
I don't understand what part of "human fluorishing" is being utterly dependent on a 2-ton box just to get a gallon of milk.
I get that previous eras were resource-constrained relative to today, but living in an envrionment where you can walk (or at least bike) to areas with culture and commerce has been shown again and again to be healthy for human development and flourishing.
"Concentrated living" is the natural market outgrowth of supply and demand, and the only reason we don't have more of it in the US is the result of decades of exclusionary zoning policies, mostly in service of racial exclusion.
Globe99
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