Exactly right. Couple that with the various types of work people are required to do and it's a doubly bad thesis. On my street alone, my neighbors include an

Exactly right. Couple that with the various types of work people are required to do and it's a doubly bad thesis. On my street alone, my neighbors include an oil field worker, a landscaper, a steel factory worker, and a UPS driver. So while the human-scale idea might work for white-collar office jobs (analogous to college campus life), there's no way it works for other professions that require separation distances for safety or logistical reasons. Before the suburban boom, we tried human scale with dangerous or large-area jobs with company housing, stores, etc. and it resulted in high prices and monopolies. Given the choice, I'll pay for the roads and sit in traffic.