Exurbia is the New Cyberspace, the virtual has become physical, and David Brooks is a genius.

You will laugh (repeatedly), you will cry, you will be inspired, and you may even see a bit of yourself in the story. Ultimately, his purpose is to motivate your inner consumer to buy his new book.

We're living in the age of the great dispersal.

The population of Atlanta increased by 22,000 during the 90's, but the expanding suburbs grew by 2.1 million.

The geography of work has been turned upside down.

In these new, expanding suburbs, life is different in ways big and small. When the New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup, they had their victory parade in a parking lot.

In the age of the great dispersal, it becomes much easier to search out and congregate with people who are basically like yourself. Society becomes more segmented, and everything that was hierarchical turns granular.

Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia