Housing is mass-produced and strictly segregated by income level. Streets and squares create important locations for civic buildings that become symbols of community identity. Public buildings and churches are scattered along the strip among the McDonalds, Tire Kingdoms, and Payless Shoes.
Small blocks facilitate walking.
Keep a log for a week, recording the purpose and distance of your trips. This causes more than loss of productivity. Annually Palm Beach County produces more than 2,000,000,000 pounds of poison emissions from family cars alone. But in most other places, if you can't walk anywhere it's no wonder that the road needs to be continually adjusted to accept more traffic as sprawl grows. Close-in neighborhoods suffer as more commuters cut through.