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Some trends die off quickly and others seem to overstay their welcome by a long shot. I heard someone say recently (although I can not remember who it was or where they said it), that the stone age did not end because we ran out of stones - it ended because we found better ways of doing things.

One of those things I think should be dead is suburban tract development and yet despite my best efforts to will its demise, it remains today the housing option of choice. I wonder if it will take a complete collapse of the world’s oil supply to secure its end or if we will figure out that there are better ways of doing things first…