• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s not zoning.

    It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

    Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.