I think this article is just suggesting that if many people are going to continue to live in a suburban environment, we could do a better job of making those en

I think this article is just suggesting that if many people are going to continue to live in a suburban environment, we could do a better job of making those environments more interesting than a pile of pedestrian unfriendly arterial roads and ten different kinds of Applebee's. There is nothing fundamentally incompatible about picking up your groceries with a minivan and later biking to a coffee shop or a local park. Local governments just don't seem to make the ability for people to do so a priority when developing their municipality.