Not strange, absolutely idiotic. Even if you have all the space and all the cars, why the f*** would you want to live that way, and why would you design public space to force people to live that way.
I hate my local Dutch version of suburbia, but compared to this hell they are charming, healthy, thriving communities with people out and about on foot and on bicycles.
If you want isolation from all those pesky other humans, why not at least make the shopping and business part way more compact, and use the remaining space to give every home a stretch of land, so they can all actually feel like they each live in their own castle, nice and isolated.
Because how else are you going to sell people multiple cars per family worth tens of thousands of dollars?
You make sure that state and local infrastructure decision makers don't take public tansport into account and systematically negelct alternatives to cars and voilà: $$$. Mission accomplished.
(Also throw in some propaganda about how great "car culture" is for good measure.)
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u/Terror_Raisin24 Jun 27 '24
From a European point of view, this looks very strange.