“Most Americans Don’t Know How to Do City Things Anymore”

That’s what Kyle Ezell, a city planner in Columbus, Ohio, says, in this DMN story about Dallas’ “urban villages,” which I suppose are an actual thing, even if this is the first time I’ve heard them referred to as such. Ezell teaches a class at Ohio State wherein he requires his students to do things such as ride a bus. It sounded sort of silly the first time I read it, then I realized: he’s probably 100 percent right.

Some interesting stuff is in that piece, even if it — guh — starts with a story about someone complaining that she can’t sleep because the bar that she willingly moved next to is too loud and it keeps her up at night.