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The wider your roads, the more the logic of efficient land use pushes you towards deep, narrow lots (in order to get as many square feet of lot per square foot of road as possible). Nathan Lewis points out that the US has had very wide roads by international standards since before the invention of the car, and therefore deeper and narrower lots for most of the late C19/early C20.
After car ownership became widespread, the US avoided the problems of wide roads and deep, narrow lots by insisting on lots which are incredibly large for the size of the house. Levittown mostly consisted of 800 sq ft houses (not counting the garage) on 6000 sq ft lots.
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