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Yes between the low density and refusal to build transit, which go hand in hand, suburban car dependant planning has destroyed the livibility and affordability of many cities.
This from the thn Australian Prime Minister in 1973. We did the exact opposite and now have a 2nd rate American system
It's the neoliberal fever dream that unregulated market mechanisms can build a better world. It's the socioeconomic theory that unfettered psychopathy is a guiding light, and the high priests of this religion pray the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train. (Or that they died wealthy of old age before things ever got too bad for them.)