The US went really hard on cars and single family housing. Without a lot of older cities in many places the surrounding land was cheap so people spread out (als

The US went really hard on cars and single family housing. Without a lot of older cities in many places the surrounding land was cheap so people spread out (also due to racist zoning laws, “stimulating the economy”, general greed, etc it’s kinda hard to point to a single reason). https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4/27/this-is-the-end-of-the-suburban-experiment https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4/27/this-is-the-en...