I'm thinking back to the GP that I replied to and my comment was basically not trying to defend the suburbs (it would be very hard to defend continuing construc

I'm thinking back to the GP that I replied to and my comment was basically not trying to defend the suburbs (it would be very hard to defend continuing construction of them), but also we can see some nice things about them. At least that was my drift. I'd agree that automobile culture does't cause people to not plant gardens (although maybe it does since why do that when you can just drive to the grocery store?) if that's where you were going. Suburbia isn't the best form of development (we already know what that is) but automobile culture just makes it a monster. It'd be one thing if you could ride a bike from the suburbs to the grocery store and back. But even a mile away is just out of the question for most people. So instead we build giant highways, spend money on highway job construction programs, and tolerate lots of money being spent on cars that become a necessary prosthetic to live life in much of the United States. Not to mention all of the unnecessary deaths, particularly teenagers, caused by car wrecks.