Why Do We Love the Suburbs?

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By Keith Kloor
Feb 4, 2011 1:44 AMNov 19, 2019 9:57 PM

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That's another way of framing this question from Kevin Drum:

Why Do We Hate our Cities?

But I'll play along and just say there's plenty of anti-urban bias to go around, including among nature-loving greens who have historically loathed cities. So the larger problem, I'd argue, is as much cultural as it is political.

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