It does, for sure... especially in the Netherlands. Part of the way these practicalities played a role was/is via design philosophies. I just think we should k

It does, for sure... especially in the Netherlands. Part of the way these practicalities played a role was/is via design philosophies. I just think we should keep in mind that in large part, the US-like suburb system works as it was designed to. It was intentionally designed to enable a certain, the car-centric lifestyle enables spaciousness/sprawl. It's not an unintended consequence. Tastes have shifted (especially among architects and such) and it is now seen as "sprawl necessitates cars" rather than "cars enable spaciousness." Walkability is seen as a value and sprawl is seen as a barrier to it. When these designs were made, spaciousness was seen as a value and cars were seen as an enabler of it. A lot of the issues we see now are (a) problems of scale. What happens when a city already has 1m suburban homes. (b) changing values/tastes.