When I look at new developments in my area, I feel we are getting the wrist of Urban and rural living. All the houses in the huge development look the same. Alm

When I look at new developments in my area, I feel we are getting the wrist of Urban and rural living. All the houses in the huge development look the same. Almost no yard. You live practically wall to wall with your neighbors. Many are town houses so you actually do. Yet, nothing is walkable. Everyone would be better off if we could have more tall, mixed-use apartment or condo buildings with stores and restaurants at the bottom. It would give more options to get affordable housing close to where people work. It also would reduce pressure for areas further away to be build up to the point where it's just wall to wall suburban nightmare. All this happens due to a combination of builder incentives, but mostly bad zoning. Clearly the land is expensive enough that we need density, yet we cannot build more proper urban housing.