Car-dependent suburbs suck. But that doesn't mean that all suburbs suck. It is possible to build suburbs that don't suck, and the US and Canada used to design great suburbs all the time.

The development of the streetcar (initially horse-drawn, later electric) made it possible for these middle class residents to move away from the industrial neighborhoods and form “suburbs” from which ...

creating the first streetcar suburbs (such as Neil Avenue and the Old Towne East neighborhood in Columbus). Suburbs that developed in the 1920s became known as automobile suburbs. Bexley is one ...