Urbanism Without Cities?

Is urbanism a place or an idea?

I wrote, earlier this year, about my appreciation of the D.C. suburbs and the sense of place I get from them, or have cultivated living in them:

I sometimes write that I’m thankful or grateful to have discovered urbanism, broadly defined. I know others who have this same feeling. What I mean by that is that I think a lot of really deeply human ways of do…