Chapters 3 and 4 from Suburban Nation

After reading through these chapters of Suburban Nation, I feel that the authors are forgetting some of the drawbacks of the pre-WWII development that they seem to like so much. The way I understand it, one of the major reasons for sprawl was that it was a reaction against the terrible urban conditions of cities at the time. They were dark, crowded, unsanitary places, and the people needed to be spread out for their own health. These aren't major issues in our urban places anymore, but I can see it as one of the big reasons that the authorities wanted to move so many people out of city centers back then. At the same time, though, I do agree with most of the what the authors are saying about what needs to change about our current development patterns.