I don't even mean in a "Ayy I'm walking here" kind of way. Today I was getting my airbags replaced for a couple hours so I was just walking around (Nowhere to go to because it was one of those near-the-highway places with nothing but department stores and car dealerships, but that's a different discussion.) Literally, it seemed like the entire layout of the area was saying "Fuck you, drive around" Like, there was barely even any sidewalks, which you'd think would be the bare minimum but nope.
The one place worth going to was this supremely out of place fountain, but to get there I had to do several different crossings of a very busy street, with nothing to help but those damn buttons you're supposed to push to, I think, make a red light (they didn't work, whoopity-do) and one crossing didn't even have that. Eventually I decided "Screw it", since there was no "official" crossing, so I just crossed the rest of the way from one of those tiny concrete islands. I didn't get run over, of course, but now I think about how comparatively easy it was for me, being able to walk on my feet; I can't even imagine how much worse it is in, say, a wheelchair. I guess America hates anyone not driving.
Suffice to say that the whole time I was thinking of this painting
You're not identifying something that seems this way. This is literally what the design and city layout is intended to shout at you in your face at all times. It was a conscientious and deliberate decision that was put in motion in the early 1900's by a collaboration between tire manufacturers, car manufacturers, gas companies, the companies that build roads, etc.
Having said that, I imagine that most folks in the USA aren't even aware of what they're missing because it's all they've ever known. As someone who has had the privilege of being able to visit Japan, it's a real fucking foundation shaker because getting anywhere by foot is not only possible, but it's the fastest and most convenient mode of travel around. Japan has major problems aside, of course, but their city layout is beautiful, functional, and vastly more humane. More people in the States would probably be more incensed by the state of things if they knew what existed just outside of their peripheral vision