I saw this video over at The Good City, a Fort Wayne, Indiana based blog about urban renewal and reclaiming our cities. If you have twenty minutes to spare, it's worth watching. It's a TED production, and the short description of this video reads:

In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

Disclaimer: There is some brief strong language in this video.

I live in the suburbs myself, and have for many years, so I can identify a lot with what he is saying. We have a long way to go to fix this problem. Of course, after reading some Wendell Berry, I'm also convinced of the need to balance our urban renewal with agrarian renewal, which he makes a brief mention of. But that's for another time.