> I do love the US but so many of our cities really are garbage. Indeed. The reason it feels so different in many European cities (and feels much better IMO) i

> I do love the US but so many of our cities really are garbage. Indeed. The reason it feels so different in many European cities (and feels much better IMO) is that they are human scale instead of automobile scale. See James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_Nowhere https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_...