Urban Ideology in America

Post-zoning, urbanism goes to hell, and there is rhetoric about the 'extinction of walking', and the assumption that everyone will drive everywhere, and walk no further than across a parking lot, and that there will be parking skyscrapers as-needed. And that ideology prevails until the 1970's, when the 'Urban Transportation Problem' gets published/realized--it's impossible to 'build your way out of congestion'. Also a general realization that the 'share automobile' of buses for non-car owners isn't financially viable (on a per-mile basis) in suburbia. So you get a decade of 'cars plus commuter transit' (BART, WMATA, MARTA) when it's realized that those cost too much to build out the planned network, and it takes until New Urbanism until we have an alternate ideology. While we're waiting for CNU to rediscover walkable urbanism, we're stuck with crank Modernist city planning, the rational comprehensive model, Brutalism, traffic-based transportation investments, and similar bunk.