The Suburbs are Hell?

Since WWII, America has chosen, very consciously to focus on single family home development. America’s cities have expanded every farther out from their urban cores to accommodate the wide streets, yards, and space that Americans demanded. This was supposed to be the American dream but somewhere along the way, it turned into the American nightmare. What is behind the suburbs being so bad? Is it the car dependency? Is it the lack of community? The lack of walkability? Or is it some combination of all of it? For those who defend the suburbs, for all the advantages (space from people, yard, better schools) it is far from hell, it is the ideal way of being. For those that would like America to make a shift away from the suburb and toward a more dense and urban style of living the suburbs are a symbol of everything that is wrong in this country. This attitude is not new either. Singers in the 1970s crooned about the boxes of ticky-tacky on the sides of the hills in San Francisco. The counter-culture movement of the 1960s rejected them before embracing them in the 1980s. So why do we love to hate the suburbs? In this video, we find out!