The US has followed this as a guiding principle over the last hundred years and largely succeeded, however the end-state seems to be a built environment where c

The US has followed this as a guiding principle over the last hundred years and largely succeeded, however the end-state seems to be a built environment where car ownership is not simply a widely enjoyed privilege so much as a de facto requirement to go about the activities of daily living, which feels, at least to me, somehow less free.