The authors, drawing from sociological studies and adding anecdotes from themselves and others plow well-worn ground: that people were not meant to live in isolation — and that car-driven suburban land planning, along with the Internet, keep us in isolated cocoons, watching videos in our home theaters rather than going to the movies and having wine in our cellars rather than bars, locked away from our neighbors, rather than fostering healthy relationships in more nurturing village settings. So what’s the answer? For many community planners, it’s a return to village life known variously as Traditional New Developments, New Urbanism and Smart Growth, ideas which have been tried, though not widely adopted, since the early 1980s. Craving Community: The New American Dream

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