yeah it’s literally the opposite of even what happened in the US pre-WW2. it’s so ironic that in a country obsessed with the free market we have ended up with the least economically viable housing layout.

it reminds me of nothing so much as bacterial colonies spreading out on an agar plate, and is that such a bad analogy? the extreme emphasis in Christian (-derived) social organization is on the nuclear family and the godlike solitude of the paterfamilias—a very small unit, replicated as uniformly as possible across the landscape.

Early 20th century streetcar suburbs were mostly a good thing, as their development pattern was entirely based on public transit corridors and they encouraged local business districts clustered around the stops, but nearly everything built in the postwar freeway era was basically terrible