Like so Many Americans of Generation X, I grew up in the suburbs, amid homes on large lots facing streets designed for cars, not people. My parents drove me everywhere, until my friends and I could get behind the wheel ourselves. Even then, we never really had anywhere to go. We hung out at the Denny's or in parking lots or in friends' basements- or, when really desperate, the mall. We never considered (we were teenagers, after all) that there might be an alternative, that the stale, bland suburban life we were living was less than half a century old and completely at odds with the way humans had lived for the previous millennia.
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