Walkable Cities

why not... leave suburbia, then, and go where the walkable neighborhoods are?

It is more walkable. That’s it. Not everything has to be centered around consumption/consumerism

Why don't they make the cities walkable again?

I don't quite understand the connection to globalization or more rural communities. Urban cities, of course, generally offer the best walkability simply because of population density. In my experience in the United States, suburban communities and small towns are most literally unwalkable due to the design of the road network. In rural areas generally it's not feasible to walk simply because your place of work, grocery store, etc. are many miles away.

Same. Most places in the US aren't built in a way where everyday errands are walkable. I feel insanely lucky to have semi-randomly ended up in one of the few places that are. I'm in love with the format of small European cities, enough that I'm considering attempting to emigrate before trying to start a family.

This is interesting and relevant - Walkable cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wai4ub90stQ&frags=pl%2Cwn

someone who has never lived in a walkable city..

Being able to "walk everywhere" is itself a kind of luxury nowadays, because there are limited walkable cities in the US and they have all become very expensive.It's often actually much cheaper to live somewhere in the suburbs where you can't walk everywhere, because everything is designed around cars.

You've just linked to a small, walkable street with slow traffic that has multiple food and shopping options mixed with medium density residential. Zooming out it looks like a quick walk to a metro station and multiple parks nearby. Not to mention how safe these areas are.The random mishmash of houses and shops is exactly the type of place that makes walking viable negating the need for a car (and the expense and waste of space storing one).I wish I could find neighbourhoods like thos

That's wrong. Many, many cities had walkable neighborhoods bulldozed and replaced with highways and parking lots, intentionally. In both the US and the EU. Many of the most walkable places have been reclaimed from cars.