> It really doesn't matter how many anecdotes or criticisms from urban designers get posted here, because the important part is that an enormous number of peopl

> It really doesn't matter how many anecdotes or criticisms from urban designers get posted here, because the important part is that an enormous number of people want to and do live in Houston, which is tautologically better urban design than any city which to which people have been unable or unwilling to move. Only if "perpetual population growth and sprawl" is your definition of a good time. If you look at the prices in SF, people are willing to spend enormous amounts of money to live there, does that mean that it's tautologically better designed than cities that can't command such prices?