To be fair, the automobile centric city has worked for about 70 years.

I’m not sure I buy this. Countless communities have been obliterated by overpasses/freeways paved through their neighborhoods. We have horrible suburban layouts we’ve embraced that are completely defined by parking lots that cause water management and housing issues. We’ve completely ripped up the little public transit we had and made few gains in that time.

Cars have created tons of problems over the 20th and 21st centuries.