Elevated anything kills the street experience for pedestrians, which is once of the central points of having urbanism in the first place. Urbanism isn&#x27;t about getting to point A to point B as fast as possible, it&#x27;s about a dense network of interactions.<p>I bet the writer would change his opinion if he learned more about urban design. The final image is pretty much a poster child for what NOT to do (similar to Le Corbusier&#x27;s vision for Paris).<p>The solution is to build more densely to make car trips less practical and to have better public transit that can&#x27;t get stuck in traffic.