The thing is that it's literally ILLEGAL to build low-rise buildings in big parts of the US. Like the Brownstones many people like, can't do that. Walkable cit

The thing is that it's literally ILLEGAL to build low-rise buildings in big parts of the US. Like the Brownstones many people like, can't do that. Walkable cities like in major European cities (low-mid size buildings, stores and cafes on the low levels), illegal. There is a midpoint between 500 sqm house in a suburb and a 30sqm apartment in a 5 million person city. But not in the US, you can't do that. What most people actually prefer would be a 200sqm two story house, with stores and schools within walking or biking distance - with proper safe sidewalks, not those foot-wide weird concrete things Americans tend to build.