>>1733091Suburbs were fine before the car became mainstream, actually.
Dense and walkable, good mixture of duplexes, triplexes, and quads in with the single-family homes, and in America at least there was tram sevice into the urban cores.
What fucked it all up is at some point urban planners got it into their heads that they had to "reward" the returning WWII veterans with packaged and pre-fabbed idyllic single-family homes in a pseudo-rural style.