Suburbia On-The-Verge? Near-Zero Carbon Form + Self-Sufficient?

The traditional urbanist view of suburbs is that, if they must exist, they should be linked by mass transit to the city core. IMAGINE MESA LIKE THIS:
> The next generation of suburbs will be anchored by main street districts
> Autonomous cars will remotely park in solar-charged sheds off-site, to be called to the home through handheld devices, thus eliminating the need for garages and driveways
> Homes will have drone delivery ports built in, greatly reducing the number of daily household trips and congestion
> With more undisturbed land, autonomous suburbs will expand parks, bike trails and farms . . .

A new kind of highly sustainable, near–zero carbon form, one linked by technology, and economically (and increasingly culturally) self-sufficient?
Autonomous Cars Are About To Transform The Suburbs

Feb 21, 2018 @ 10:31 AM

By Joel Kotkin and Alan M. Berger

"Suburbs have largely been dismissed by environmentalists and urban planners as bad for the planet, a form that needed to be eliminated to make way for a bright urban future. Yet, after a few years of demographic stultification amid the Great Recession, Americans are again heading to the suburbs in large numbers, particularly millennials.
So rather than fight the tide and treat suburbanization as an evil to be squeezed out, perhaps a better approach would be to modify the suburban form in ways that address its most glaring environmental weakness: dependence on gas-powered automobiles. The rise of ride-sharing, electric cars and ultimately the self-driving automobile seem likely to alter this paradigm. . . "Forbes Editor's Pick

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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Whoa! a...and this is Mesa Mayor John Giles in-the-saddle atop his "Beast of Burden"
We are so blessed