In its most recent quarterly virtual discussion, this time on the future of cities, Coldwell Banker Commercial senior vice president and managing director Dan Spiegel spoke with Greg Lindsay, a senior fellow of MIT's Future Urban Collectives Lab, and Dr. Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at Brookings Metro.

One development that Spiegel asked about was attempts to recreate an "urban environment in a non-urban setting."

According to Loh, the phenomenon is at least a couple of generations old. "I do think it's something that will be supercharged by the pandemic," she said. "It kind of makes sense that suburbs 3.0 might be the last dimension of creating a live-work-play environment. It's good news, really, for the United States because the alternative is suburbs that don't have a complete land use mix and that involve huge amounts of car travel. So. urbanizing suburbs is really good news for climate change, and it's really good news for equity and inclusion because most Americans live in the suburbs. This is how they can get access to urban experiences, urban opportunity, urban prosperity."