The lonely neighborhood: an essay series on making the built environment more conducive to living well together [americans are living ever more isolated lives

We get married later, start families later, have fewer children, and report more loneliness than ever before. Everyone suspects that new technology has something to do with this. But what if we?RE also suffering from the failure of a very old technology? Somehow IT has become astonishingly expensive to buy a house in the united states. The median house sale price is now $417,000. Fifty years ago, in today?s dollars, IT was $232,000. And the young are getting priced out: in 1981, the median first-time homebuyer was 29 years old. Today he or she is 38. There is a dearth of original reporting on these issues, especially from publications shaped by the humanities and addressing perennial yet pressing concerns about dignity, the nature of the good life, and meaning and purpose. To help fill this GAP in the ideas marketplace, the new atlantis is publishing a series of originally reported articles called ?the lonely neighborhood.?]