Or the people are just spontaneously dumb?
I mean, what’s the point of living in a gated community if you need to drive to places filled with poors to buy shit, or have a beer, or hook up with someone in your tax bracket, or etc?
These are places where to sleep but not to live, and they put them really fucking away from basic needs. C'mon at least just put a fucking grocery store with overpriced tomatoes
city planning was outlawed as a minor provision of the Compromise of 1850 (often mis-cited as a precursor to civil war, but more accurately summarized as shit brained federalism)
american city planners in the 1930s attempted to petition the supreme court to overturn that provision, but were swiftly found dead and floating down various rivers.
today, a new suburban subdivision can be one of three uses: housing (exclusively, as pictured), industrial (e.g. a car manufacturing campus in the middle of fuckoff nowhere), or commercial (most often, a walmart supercenter).
:the-more-you-know:
I really don't know if this is a joke.
historically informed shitposting, my friend
check out the development of texas city, galveston, and las vegas - whoever has money (the mob, mostly) can do whatever they want and it's much cheaper to just carve out a square and tell a developer to make 120 identical homes than.. pay intelligent people who care about the development of community and life to make a real city.