Our Cars, mighty overloards

In cities grown large after WW2 the predominant design focus was no longer the neighborhood,
it was the automobile
we built Huge infrastructure, dedicated to the use of the Car.since then cities have become largely uunwalkable,
.we live in one place. we shop and and do business in another.
you cant BE in the United states, without the expense and trouble of owning a car
yes there are cities where there is good mass transit but they are very rare.
we have squandered real estate especially across cities
look at an areal picture of our cities.
see the vast spaces taken by parking lots and interchanges.
amd how few walkable neighborhoods there are
to be able to walk comfortably to the local grocery or other business, then back home in a decent interval, not an hour long slog across motorways.
we CAN live this way, and some locales are working on it
but we are a long way from being free of the tyranny of the Motor Car

and yes, this is a call for discussion
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