Some small number of urban planners have been "beating the drum" for a while, but the vast majority of urban planning during the 'Age of the Car' has been pro-a

Some small number of urban planners have been "beating the drum" for a while, but the vast majority of urban planning during the 'Age of the Car' has been pro-automobile and anti-everything-else. It wasn't private capitalists that demolished downtowns for expressways, or mandated minimum parking for nearly every kind of building, or prohibited high-density development, or required looping, unwalkable street networks, or used zoning to separate residences and shopping/jobs, or any of these things. Sure, car companies have campaigned for their advantage, like everyone. But the transformation of US transportation to a car-dominant model has in very large part been the product of urban planners and their rules. And it continues to be - for all the academic valorization of non-automobile transport, the old rules that advantage cars remain in place, almost everywhere.