Urban Design, Architecture and Urban Planning are such neat fields, they definitely won't drive you insane
Anyways every single problem with modern american cities can be traced back to the suburbanisation of the 50s and 60s. Such as the current unaffordablility of city center, the lack of density and transit, displacement, our lack of community, the feeling of no purpose in our lives and our over dependence on massive corporations for our everyday needs. Suburbs are a soulless destructive mistake that have become a black hole in the urban fabric of our cities tearing apart out cities bit by bit till nothing is left
Notice that the best cities and most livable cities are the cities that developed and expanded in the era of streetcars and Subways, not the era of the car and modern suburbs. Places like New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, maybe even San Francisco and DC due to how much of DCs growth post war was fuelled by the metro. Unfortunately due to the lack of places that are truly livable in the US the price to live in these cities has gone up exponentially since the 90s leading to even more problems
