That's a good argument: the development of cities post-AC and post-car strongly favours the current model. But, is it possible that cities were small because t

That's a good argument: the development of cities post-AC and post-car strongly favours the current model. But, is it possible that cities were small because the wrong building style was used? After all, the Spanish colonies to the south of the US are warmer than the South, but had large cities.