Urbanists apparently want to force people to live shoulder-to-shoulder. As soulless as suburbs can be, they should be recognized as attempts to escape having to interact with people, especially strangers, on a constant basis, which is a great stressor for humans. Humans are not built to live in cities; village or rural life is better for us, and it would pay dividends in all sorts of ways — mental & physical health, to name a couple — to develop and encourage those ways of living instead of urban or suburban life.