Mayberry Wasn't a Subdivision

In between the big city and the sprawling suburb, there's the ubiquitous and neglected small town. Conservatives should champion it.

A point I often make is that alongside cities and sprawling suburbs, America is replete with another built form: small towns. Despite getting short shrift in a lot of urbanist conversation, small towns are “urban” too, at least much more so than conventional suburbs. As one Twitter interlocutor put it, urbanism is a matter of design more than of populat…