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I don't understand this argument. The automobile is much younger than the country. Cars became broadly used about a century ago, the 1910s-20s. How many U.S. ci
by wool_gather 8y ago
I don't understand this argument. The automobile is much younger than the country. Cars became broadly used about a century ago, the 1910s-20s. How many U.S. cities do you imagine there are that were created after that? Or even that, due to cars, dramatically changed their size relative to the overall population?
- hoorayimhelping 8y ago>How many U.S. cities do you imagine there are that were created after that? Quite a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburb#Post-war_suburban_expansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburb#Post-war_suburban_expan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York
- GW150914 8y agoCreated, or built-up, expanded, and for more heavily populated? The US population has more than tripled in that same period, and the percentage of those people living in rural areas dropped precipitously.