Comment by wbsss4412

This is often repeated, but it misses the full story.

I myself used to believe that to be the case, but fairly recently learned that many European cities used to have significantly more car infrastructure and reversed course, while at the same time, many American cities had walkable infrastructure that was later bulldozed for cars.

There’s nothing inevitable about the way we build/built cities in America, it’s a matter of choice and priorities.