How the New Urbanism took on sprawl and won

It’s 1996. You just moved to a suburb of Atlanta, to a roomy house on a quiet street. Every morning at dawn, you kiss your family goodbye, and then hop in your car to drive 35 miles to your office in the city. It takes more than an hour to get there. You have plenty of company on the road at that hour, as you’re one of the more than 600,000 people who moved to the northern outskirts of Atlanta over the last six years. Between the traffic and constant construction, the swelli...