How do you figure? Why must it be Kowloon Cube and not any form with an intermediate density? I live in Trollhättan, a Swedish city of about 60,000 people and

How do you figure? Why must it be Kowloon Cube and not any form with an intermediate density? I live in Trollhättan, a Swedish city of about 60,000 people and don't have a car. It isn't hard. And Saabs were built here, so this isn't some sort of anti-car place. I used to live in Santa Fe, NM a US city of about 70,000 people. I had a car, but across later visits was there for a couple months without a car and found life much harder. Santa Fe was founded in 1610 so was a city for 300 years before cars became popular. Its population was about 5,000 in 1912, so most of the build-up was during the car era. Trollhättan became a city in 1916, when the population was only 15,000, so again most of its build-up was during the car era. Why does transit-oriented development make sense for Trollhättan but not Santa Fe? When you say "small town", what size do you mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town#United_States says it varies by quite a bit - Alabama says a town has a population of under 2,000, while in Connecticut, West Hartford is a town with a population of 64,083. Could you gave an example of the urbanists you mean? There isn't much need for public transit if you can walk across town in 15 minutes.