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The US could really use a complete leveling like what Europe got from the world wars. Being able to redesign everything from scratch with modern sensibilities w

• oftenwrong 9y ago
  That's exactly how the older American cities got where they are today: http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/ http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/
• chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
  "Anybody who travels back and forth across the Atlantic has to be impressed with the differences between European cities and ours, which make it appear as if World War Two actually took place in Detroit and Washington rather than Berlin and Rotterdam." - James Howard Kunstler, Home From Nowhere (1996)
• TulliusCicero 9y ago
  This is hilarious to me because usually what pro-car apologists say is that the reason European cities are more walking-friendly is because they're so old and have pre-car street grids. Which isn't entirely wrong, but the fact that American cities are hostile to walking was still a collective choice on our parts, the advent of the car didn't mean that we had to explicitly favor them at all times, that was something we decided to do.