I&#x27;m 50, and an American. I&#x27;ve never owned a car. I can attest to the stigma of not traveling via personal motor vehicle, and the senseless barriers we&#x27;ve erected to getting through one&#x27;s daily life by means other than car.<p>I&#x27;m cheered by these splashy blurbs, but I&#x27;m unconvinced they report a permanent trend: we still have a huge inventory of office park sprawl, strip mall wastelands, and residential &quot;neighborhoods&quot; with no sidewalks, with more being developed.