> Whatever comes out of these modern transformations might as well leave the city centers economically deserted, or at least less attractive to their current ci

> Whatever comes out of these modern transformations might as well leave the city centers economically deserted, or at least less attractive to their current citizen. All experience with cities that reduced or banned car traffic point in the other direction. Madrid for example reports a 9.5% increase in local business https://copenhagenize.eu/news-archive/2019/3/14/the-benefits-of-car-free-streets https://copenhagenize.eu/news-archive/2019/3/14/the-benefits... If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands you’d also see that their city centers are far from deserted wastelands. Quite to the contrary, actually, at least the ones that I’ve been to. > But they also should understand that cities do come with downsides and there is no guarantee that you can have the cake and eat it. Living in the suburbs comes with downsides, too. There’s for example no inalienable right to drive your car in the city.