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>purposely laid-out most modern cities to require private car use

This is only true of LA, Phoenix, and Tucson, cities established or seeing their principal growth after the invention of air conditioning.

Pretty much every other American city got its street plan decades or centuries before automobiles. New York's streets were drawn in 1810. San Francisco got its streets in 1840. The assertion that America is "designed for cars" is totally bunk. Cars are invaders in cities designed for walking and horse riding.