Surprised this article doesn't talk at depth about the one obvious reason why American cities are shaped like something a deranged computer spat out. Racial se

Surprised this article doesn't talk at depth about the one obvious reason why American cities are shaped like something a deranged computer spat out. Racial segregation, obviously, is the biggest reason and perhaps the source of all other reasons. City planners in the early 19th and 20th centuries had racial segregation as their overriding goal to the detriment of common sense or logic.