Midcentury Planners Demolished America’s Social Fabric

From the same author of "The Social Recession: By the Numbers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309754

"In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes presented his exhibition on the future of the American city. Named “Futurama,” this world was one of the mega-highways that cut through dense metropolises and their skyscrapers. ... Geddes’s exhibit was a mechanical world intended for organized movement. Its 14-lane highways acted as conveyer belts for a utopia designed around the automobile. The living quarters were secondary, based on a grid system whose boundaries were set by dense motorways. Despite the diminished sociability built into its design, Futurama illustrated a narrowly efficient world that gave an impression of the cutting edge."