Many times I look around Dallas and Fort Worth and wonder how this place will fare with high oil prices. Much of the urban areas are not densely built or very walkable. Some of the suburban areas aren't even served by transit. It was recently frequently noted in media coverage of the Super Bowl that Arlington, that huge area between Dallas and Fort Worth, has the unfortunate moniker of being the largest city in the United States without public transit. None, nada, nope. Buy a car or stay home.
In my view, in the future these areas will have the most difficulty adapting to both high oil prices and changing demographics. Rebuilding them will be cost-intensive. Demand for locally-produced food and goods will increase, and with that, one activity likely to rise is what's being called urban homesteading, which includes micro-scale farming operations.
It turns out suburban homes are better suited for this because well, they have yards. A program run by Nash Farm in Grapevine, Texas--a community just above Arlington--recently offered a Saturday program on Urban Homesteading and other sustainable activities.
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