>But at the same time, I don't personally want to go back to an age before automobiles became commonplace. Neither would I, but I think the cautionary value in

>But at the same time, I don't personally want to go back to an age before automobiles became commonplace. Neither would I, but I think the cautionary value in the discussion of the resulting inadvertent restriction of pedestrian freedom is not to visualize an auto-free world as an alternative but instead to visualize a new set of customs of urban development that aggressively protect pedestrian freedom. In the real estate world, the walkability movement is concerned with this and should achieve greater influence.