Is the same thing beginning to happen with the built environment?
DS: I don’t know. I think it’s true, but I don’t think people know what to do. It’s social — it’s a public good. 2B: It’s out of their control in a way that their eating or dressing isn’t. DS: Right. And that’s part of what’s tough. I’m looking at this residential street I’m on — it’s pretty nice, built in the ’20s or ’30s. I’m using it and enjoying it. But I don’t have control over what any individual owner does. That’s one of the things that makes the single-family house so successful — it gives people a zone of autonomy. They don’t have a townhouse or condominium association, which a lot of time have incredibly dumb rules about the color of your blinds or where you can store a bicycle. And those things are part of life in higher-density neighborhoods. It’s one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to get people excited about new high-density neighborhoods. The best ones are the old ones. We don’t seem to be able to figure out how to build them new. 2B: So it’s partly a matter of c