Urban Growth
Currently Unsustainable…
Land-use design is specific to what type of structures accommodate its transportation. The product of automobile centric land-use design produces structures to accommodate cars. These pictures represent the foundation of automobile centric land-use design. Automobile centric land-use design accommodates cars, people are a by-product of its land-use. The automobile is convenient and useful; however, it is totally unsustainable. Building a society upon an unsustainable foundation is problematic.
- Poisoning of the aquafer from road runoff
- Health damage from stress related road traffic
- Environmental damage from oil base roadbeds
- Economic loss of currency from local circulation
- No alternative transportation beyond automobile
- Social isolationism from single occupancy vehicles
- Destruction of prime farmland to sprawl development