Submitted by Test19s t3_103asd7 in Futurology
On the one hand, you have (at least online) a massive backlash towards car-dependent development, which in some cases extends to a dislike of cars and suburbs in general (including many if not most pre-2008 New Urbanist projects) and that is strongly associated with left-of-center politics. There are factions that favor pre-WWII North American garden cities and suburbs (me!), European-style cities, and East Asian-style skyscrapers.
On the other hand, there are ongoing advances in electric and semiautonomous vehicles as well as on the integration of tech into cars, as well as a mistrust of large urban areas and social contact and a new generation of digital nomads and vehicle dwellers. (There is also the grimdark possibility that European countries in general evolved under unique cultural and historic conditions that can’t be replicated in different eras and cultural makeups, which I refuse on principle to accept) Which side do you think will win out in the 2020-2050 era, or do you think a compromise will prevail?