Comment by formalsystem

I don't know what we've built in the US but it certainly doesn't feel like we've built cities for people. In California, most of the outside real estate is dedicated to roads with the monotony occasionally interrupted by a parking lot with the same cookie cutter businesses. It's very rare that I'll see a mom and pop shop here and for the most part the outside world with billboards, malls and fast food chains is a distribution channel for big businesses.