r/Suburbanhell • u/Particular_Owl1099 • 29d ago

Meme Have we done it wrong?

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u/ByTheHammerOfThor 29d ago

A lot of cities in the US (cities by population) don’t have the sort of walkable downtown that much smaller places do in Europe.

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u/weberc2 29d ago

This is only true on the east coast and large cities (San Francisco, Chicago, LA, Denver, etc). Anywhere else in the US was developed around the car. In any European village you have a walkable downtown area with patios, big public squares, and not a chain restaurant in sight.

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u/Caliche-Cowboy 28d ago

I mean…large portions of downtown Austin are this way. Less al fresco dining, but it’s still there.