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Most of Europe doesn't live in what Americans would call suburbs, but villages. They're dense where people live and have train and bus service conveniently, bec
by taurath 9y ago
Most of Europe doesn't live in what Americans would call suburbs, but villages. They're dense where people live and have train and bus service conveniently, because in postwar Europe there were a lot fewer cars. They also zone such that there's a dense living area surrounded by farmland - when that farmland becomes all housing thenyoull have American style suburbs, but few in Europe want that because it's harder to get where you want to go.
- chrischen 9y agoThis is pretty much the norm in orher places such as China and Japan. New developments havebeen getting more sprawl in China though, as cars have become more popular.
- wott 9y agoYou'd better update your knowledge. Suburbs now spread for miles around towns and even former villages, for ten or twenty miles around major cities. And small towns and villages lost their railways and stations 40 to 80 years ago.
- taurath 9y agoNot in a lot of Germany, or Austria from what I saw driving the countryside for a week
- dilemma 9y agoPost-war Europe didn't have cars and cities are surrounded by farmland? Nope.