What are actually all the problems with modern suburbia, cars and car-dependency, both in North America and Europe?
I have been thinking about this recently because the discussion of these issues is often somewhat all over the place.
Currently my list goes roughly like this, what might I have missed?:
Modern Suburbia:
>the low density is enormously cost intensive for municipalities to maintain
>the low density causes car-dependency as it doesn't allow to economically operate more than barebones public transit and makes cycling no viable alternative
>takes up enormous amounts of space and destroys the landscape
>new construction destroys irreplaceable top soil
>very poorly scales up (a few single family houses on the edge of a small town don't cause much trouble, square miles of them do)
>single family houses adapt poorly to family changes and one ends up too easily with an elderly couple unable to maintain their home
>single family become as people age increasingly a liability due often the inability to perform repair and start losing value due to this
>causes social isolation as every journey beyond visiting direct neighbors requires getting into a car