> What doesn't work is taking an existing car-centric city and making it more annoying for cars. That doesn't shrink the distances for bikes or encourage growth

> What doesn't work is taking an existing car-centric city and making it more annoying for cars. That doesn't shrink the distances for bikes or encourage growth around a focal point. Paris wasn't built around cars, though. Amsterdam was very car-centric in the 70s [0][1][2] even if the city was not built for cars. Over the decades it was reclaimed from cars and back into a pedestrian-friendly city, taking space/lanes away from cars to build cycling infrastructure, better separation between traffic (enlarged sidewalks in major streets, separate bike lanes, raised sidewalks for pedestrians on intersections, etc.). American cities have a lot more space to be taken away from cars, instead of stroads you could have bike lanes with pedestrian boulevards with vegetation/trees as separation from traffic, better public transportation with trams and busses on the same streets as cars to lower the speed, better connection to the transportation network for people coming from suburbs so they could switch to the cities' mass transportation; it's, to me, a very low hanging fruit on how to improve American cities urbanism but it takes political will and a change of culture, unfortunately I feel that the change of culture is the hardest part in the USA with its hyper-individualism. [0] https://i.pinimg.com/736x/09/d4/9f/09d49fbe98e46797d45e8c1774269302.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/09/d4/9f/09d49fbe98e46797d45e8c177... [1] https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/index_files/image012.png https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/index_files/... [2] https://i.redd.it/vujg495x71l61.jpg https://i.redd.it/vujg495x71l61.jpg