You realize that the specialized economic activity that you and I enjoy employment as a result of in the big city is only a thing because increasingly efficient farming methods allowed civilization to evolve beyond agrarian hunter-gatherer societies, right?

You realize that if cities ceased to exist, rural areas would be doing way better than if the opposite happened, right?

If a city stops buying food from a rural area, the rural area still has enough food to feed itself. The city does not.

Everything about it reeks of a privileged girl sitting in a trendy hipster coffee shop in NYC, staring out the window at a line of cars, thinking “I know what will solve everything! Just ban cars! I don’t need a car, I walk to my vegan yogurt store! Why can’t everyone just live in NYC and not own cars!?”

Alyssa,

Typical Gizmodo article.

Assuming a pace of 5 mph, I could easily walk to work in a mere 12 hours!