I’m not sure I agree with everything you posted there, but I absolutely agree with you about schools. Even something as simple as school buses is an enormous source of congestion in many suburban areas. In fact, I look upon the traditional yellow school bus as an indicator of what’s wrong with our whole approach to education.
If we absolutely must teach kids in groups, we can always organize classes in people’s family rooms, home school areas, or the aforementioned strip mall spaces and communicate with the rest of the “school,” if necessary, via internet.