I enjoyed this article. As a bit of a contrast, I also recommend this article I came across yesterday, which criticizes the American idea of building a home as an isolated utopia:

"The Suburban Lifestyle Dream" https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-suburban-lifestyle-dream

> Even as the West has built some of the world’s most extraordinary cities, this Puritanical, anti-urban throughline runs across our culture. The desire to return to an Edenic state is a central theme in the story of how the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” first entered our collective conscience. That dream has powered the unique pattern of suburbanization that typifies much of modern America—one marked by “stratified and segregated social geography” and “relatively low density.”