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Look at photos of the US from before the introduction of the automobile. It looks very similar to today because of the similar form factor horse and carriage ha
by captainoats 5y ago
Look at photos of the US from before the introduction of the automobile. It looks very similar to today because of the similar form factor horse and carriage has to a car or truck. Minus the interstate highway system, things would look nearly the same.
- milkytron 5y agoYeah the layout is mostly the same, but the costs for a dirt/gravel/cobblestone road are much less and there wouldn't be as many roads out to the middle of nowhere. There would have been decades of building density in the hearts of cities, something which is lacking now.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoLots of other developed countries that don't incentivize suburban development just don't develop roads in lower density areas. Roads with lower LOSes often are just gravel roads or sealed dirt roads instead of leveled and graded concrete the way it is in the US. That's the problem when it comes to affordability here; the actual usage of these low-density roads isn't worth the cost of maintaining them.
- pgodzin 5y agoExcept that almost every city was denser before, with buildings now replaced by highways and surface parking lots