> US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing ve

> US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing very poorly. I wonder if it's all down to the opioid crisis over here I think that urbanism, or the absolute catastrophe that Anglophone North American is, is a big part of the problem. People live far away from where they work, and downtowns are almost exclusively offices/commercial spaces. There is little reason to be there outside of working, so, outside of the obvious waste, during economic downturns and/or remote work spikes, there won't be a lot of people there. This leaves lots of abandoned/barely used space for people who have lost their work/housing to go to (the lack of social safety nets, especially in the US, contributes to these numbers).