I am delighted that you put this out.
I often thought that cars are meanwhile the masters of people and not the other way around. A car needs maintenance, space, repair and takes up a lot of financial resources. It often is more a pain in the but than a servant for what it was actually build for: freedom of using muscle power to move from one point to the other and mostly to transport something I cannot carry on my own.

Where automobiles dominate the scene the area itself vibrates of a somehow dead atmosphere. After all shopping has been done the whole space looks ghostly and lifeless. So much space just to consume...

Indeed, when I walk the streets I grew up in - a suburbia - I felt a certain depression about the shielded properties and introvert existences of the people living there. I found no outside life as there are no businesses and even no particular garden economies. I find this utterly disturbing that people who do have huge gardens do not make anything with them - there is so much potential in this! Not a lot of "common" is to be found there yet. And therefore no particular "community" just a working class society which serves the "The iron-triangle. car-job-house" as you put it so bluntly.

Indeed the design is changing little by little and I like it a lot. I am one example you talk about. I work where I live, walk to my working space or take my bike. Grow plants and herbs on my balcony - would like to support the local dealer even more but as finances are small (I decided for time instead of money) this creates me some difficulties but I see it as a process and within it I learn how to navigate and find solutions.

I really like how you use your thoughts to put them into this easy to approach text.