Good article.
It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots:
- The cost of gas is only going to go up.
- The abhorrent quality with which suburban homes have been built will render them derelict in a few short years.
- Suburbanites are starting to realize they are quickly becoming exhausted, broke, fat, and lonely.
- The collective environmental consciousness is starting to wake up to the fact that maybe sprawling car-dependent lifestyles aren’t very responsible. I mean really, who cares if you have CFL light bulbs in all your lamps when you spend 2 hours each day commuting around in your single-person vehicle. (Let’s face it, carpooling never really caught on).

There is tremendous opportunity for cities to provide quality, affordable urban infill housing. (This is especially feasible in smaller cities where the cost of land in the city centre is less expensive and less dense).