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Lokarin posted...

actually, the image of the American family only lasted between 1940 and 1970, people only think it was a century long thing but people were still living in familial colonies and homesteads right up until the second world war

And much of the "American dream" of families living in their own suburban houses with white picket fences and manicured lawns was overwhelmingly a post-war thing, as car industry propaganda pushed that as being the ideal way to design cities. It is, of course, terribly silly to think of reliance on massive government subsidies to prop up unsustainable infrastructure as being symbolic of personal wealth and prosperity, but that's precisely what many people worldwide bought into, with devastating results. Some cities and countries saw where suburban sprawl was taking them and managed to turn things around, others have been more stubborn about it.