One of our favorite urban writers, Haya El Nasser, reported this week in USA Today on "active living communities" that are striving to become multigenerational to serve the desires of families who want live closer to parents, children and grandparents.

It feels like back to the future, doesn't it? This is what real neighborhoods used to look like. (And many still do.) I had the privilege of living on the same block with my grandparents for much of my childhood. Our neighborhood had plenty of kids. But we also had plenty of people whose kids had come and gone. Plus, I got to live around the corner from the library, movie theater, grocery store and pharmacy. And I could walk to school.

My young world was far bigger than the average youngster's world today who must depend on mom to take her everywhere. Multigenerational (and mult-use neighborhoods? They ought to be the standard. Anything else should feel strange.

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