The key to being a walkable city is to developed as a city BEFORE cars. Then they had dense grids because most people walked or took wagons at best. Cities did

The key to being a walkable city is to developed as a city BEFORE cars. Then they had dense grids because most people walked or took wagons at best. Cities didn’t develop in southern hot climates until really the advent of air conditioning, which aligns roughly with the rise of cars.