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Suburbs are about people wanting to not be so close to large numbers of other people. Those who like living in cities do not understand that most people do not want to be that close to large numbers of other people.
I think this aversion to dense living has evolutionary origins. People like grass lawns for the same reason they like golf courses with grasses bordering on small forests. We evolved in those conditions. We like those conditions.
People who want others to gladly live in urban environments are trying to get humans to do something that is against their nature.
Hardly !
The "white flight" to Suburbia was just a mass movement, (see burnt orange shag carpeting comment above) and not the result of fundamental preferences.
You are pointing to a single data point in our very long history and claiming that is "human nature".
I think the opposite is very true, Suburban social isolation is aberrant, unhealthy and contrary to the basic requirements of mental health.
As one sure sign of the pathology of Suburbia, look at the growing rates of obesity, and prescription psychotropic drugs.
Alan