Cities grew for thousands of years. Suburbs have had a 50 year run. Maybe it's oscillation on a exponentially increasing frequency, but I'm more inclined to thi

Cities grew for thousands of years. Suburbs have had a 50 year run. Maybe it's oscillation on a exponentially increasing frequency, but I'm more inclined to think that suburbs were a temporary aberration. People seem to like to be together, and throughout technological history the infrastructure scales better in cities as well, so even if people were indifferent to isolation vs. socialization the economics would favor urban development.