Nah, there are at least two problems, with the other big one being zoning. Everything from climate change to the housing crisis to poor health due to sedentary lifestyles is caused by it.
Deliberately car-centric utopian modernism (the Garden Cities movement, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City, etc.) is certainly a factor, but I’d say it’s as much, if not more, about racism. Once de-jure segregation was outlawed, making property expensive by using minimum lot sizes to force people to buy a lot of it at a time became the next-best way to keep (poorer, on average) black people out.
Nah, there are at least two problems, with the other big one being zoning. Everything from climate change to the housing crisis to poor health due to sedentary lifestyles is caused by it.
Zoning issues that you’re thinking of stem from our Happy-Motoring society.
Deliberately car-centric utopian modernism (the Garden Cities movement, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City, etc.) is certainly a factor, but I’d say it’s as much, if not more, about racism. Once de-jure segregation was outlawed, making property expensive by using minimum lot sizes to force people to buy a lot of it at a time became the next-best way to keep (poorer, on average) black people out.