People also prefer to fly in personal helicopters. Simply because people like something doesn't mean it happens. The world has constraints. And those constrai

People also prefer to fly in personal helicopters. Simply because people like something doesn't mean it happens. The world has constraints. And those constraints negotiate between what people want and what makes sense in the real world. When you literally steam roll the constraints, make alternatives worse and literally flatten whole parts of cities to make things happen. Then that not a simply outcome of 'desire for more space'. Roads in subburbs aren't so absurdly large because of a desire for more space. Absurdly oversized lawns aren't actually that practical or useful (not to mention costly and environmental disaster). Your story of 'space above all else' simply doesn't hold up. Yes people want space, but they also want lots of other things. Its a balance. And if you do radical intervention to shift the balance you influence the result. The simply reality is that one of the driving forces of many suburban developments was that it was simply illegal for black people to move there. In fact, after a wguke prices in parts of the city were so low that you could get a whole lot more space for not so much money. And yet still many people moved to suberbia. Its almost as if massive investment in on thing and massive disinvestment in the other leads to people wanting to move where the investment is.