If you would like this rant in book form, throwing in some well-deserved broadsides at architects, I highly recommend:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Man-Made-Landscape&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0671888250" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Man-Made-La...</a><p>I would also add the radical individualists of the 60s who made the cities unlivable for families.