The first point I really took issue with was this: > farther away was more desirable than closer in Before the current urban renaissance, this was absolutely

The first point I really took issue with was this: > farther away was more desirable than closer in Before the current urban renaissance, this was absolutely not true. Inner suburbs were often nicer, especially if adjacent to a "nice" part of a city. People still lived very far from the urban core, commuting to the city, and that was cheaper and less desirable than an inner suburb.