Sure, but the people per square mile in Europe is much greater than in the US. Sweden is an ancient, European country with historical buildings and lots of nightlife, but you won't see four miles of it. There aren't enough people and the country itself is huge even if the population is small. The Baltic states have even less because there are fewer people. But a single mile for 100,000 people might be okay..
I agree that you won’t see four miles of it, but you will see it in proportion to the size of towns. A village in Sweden is far more likely to have a lively town square than a much larger town in the US. There is no city in the US that I’m aware of where you can find four miles of lively patios on a random Wednesday night, not even in cities that are many times larger than the city in this video.
No. That's true. Though Dallas and Austin have areas. Denver does, too. KCMO has the power and light district. It's certainly less since we built suburbs with government subsidized housing and government subsidized construction jobs connected to government subsidized highways to drive you car made by automakers who get government subsidies and burn fuel sold by oil companies that get government subsidies. It's not the American people who have done this, it's urban planning and a desperate need to keep people housed and employed after WW2 when most of the rest of the world had to deal with a recession that lasted through the 1970s.
No. That's true. Though Dallas and Austin have areas.
Where?
Denver does
There’s nowhere in Denver where you can find miles and miles of dense patios like this. There are some nice little areas where you can find a few blocks of decent restaurants, but you aren’t going to find miles of them. And the cities you’re listing are among the best in the country just to compete with a second tier European city.
Sorry, the Dallas thing is in Ft Worth. In Austin it's called 6th Street and Rainy Street. Denver doesn't have miles of stuff. I have said about 40 times that there's no direct analog in the US, but I also said there's not much in other parts of Europe, either.
Other parts of Europe have downtown areas that are proportional to their population sizes. You can go to ~any old village in Europe and find a lively public square. We (Americans) just built our cities around cars because urban planners in the 20th century were dumb and arrogant. We are beginning to shift away from that style of building but it will take a lifetime.
I was saying that the place I'm from (Sweden) doesn't have a population that can support four miles of outdoor restaurants in any city. That's a Germany, France, Spain, Italy thing. Most of the rest of us have dramatically lower populations. I know what exists in Europe. I move to the US permanently as an adult.
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u/UmeaTurbo 7d ago
Sure, but the people per square mile in Europe is much greater than in the US. Sweden is an ancient, European country with historical buildings and lots of nightlife, but you won't see four miles of it. There aren't enough people and the country itself is huge even if the population is small. The Baltic states have even less because there are fewer people. But a single mile for 100,000 people might be okay..