>Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan have solved the car problem pretty simply- either there's no parking at all or it costs more to park a car than it does to use Uber. Except for the very rich, cars have become obsolete there.

Uber is one of the responses to the current demand for reshaping the urban landscape. Back in the, when was it, thirties to fifties, when the big oil-tyre-car industry was killing public transportation (framing Roger rabbit, IOW), the country was gradually reshaped by the car. There wouldn't be so many suburbs without the cars. And, ah, we also had the suburbs at the time, but their sociological meaning was the opposite - that was the place for cheap housing for the working class, with small houses on small lots. Because we didn't have so many cars back then.

And then you had to have a car or otherwise you were helpless. The car (and the car-influenced zoning) killed the little shop on the corner. I remember that wherever I lived in the US the nearest shop was a mile or two away. Highly impractical unless you plan your shopping around driving around. And the public transportation is almost nonexistent (except in those densely packed places like NYC or DC) so you have to have a car.

Here the urban planning, even in brand new places like Novi Beograd (New Belgrade, built from scratch across the river) took a completely different approach. On each residential high-rise, the whole ground floor was left to businesses. So you have the little shops, beauty parlors, cafés, copiers and whatnot within a short walk. And the parking space is nearby but does not occupy all the space around these buildings - there's always some kind of park, with benches, basketball space, playgrounds. And even though they planned one parking slot per each four apartments (!), somehow I never have a problem finding one, whereas while our daughter lived on the old south side it did happen several times that I had to drive three rounds around the block to find that eye of a needle to thread my little car into.