I don't see it that way because title is "The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone" and then the whole article is saying how suburbs are revitalized to fit needs of those new inhabitants.
So from the start article never was about suburbs. It was about people and social dynamics.
The first 5 paragraphs go to extreme pains to describe suburbs as failed racist projects that only uncle toms and other racists support.
The actual interview spends most of its time focusing on how malls aren’t that useful anymore, and now that they’re changing to be useful people are moving back out to the suburbs. But the core idea of the suburbs: large SFU homes on large plots of land is never questioned.
So from the start article never was about suburbs. It was about people and social dynamics.