> think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans. Yo

> think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans. You should give Howard Kunstler‘s The Geography of Nowhere and Duany, et al.‘s Suburban Nation a read. (There are other good ones, too). They’d readily dispel the timing notion you suggest. Rather this bland outcome is clearly from adopting civil engineering and planning codes intentionally.