The Reagan White House moved to lower tax rates for developers in the 1980s and then years of low interest rates glutted downtowns with office buildings. Time's up.
yeah, they probably had really poorly designed cities early on as well. America is the most powerful country in the world but it’s also a very young nation.
most non-US culture’s cities were repeatedly burned down, pillaged, suffered natural catastrophes like volcanos, tidal waves, earthquakes, and/or had their populations systematically zeroed out by waves of plague/disease/war. they’ve had hundreds, if not thousands of years to figure out a good city plan without modern construction material science.
yeah, they probably had really poorly designed cities early on as well. America is the most powerful country in the world but it’s also a very young nation.
most non-US culture’s cities were repeatedly burned down, pillaged, suffered natural catastrophes like volcanos, tidal waves, earthquakes, and/or had their populations systematically zeroed out by waves of plague/disease/war. they’ve had hundreds, if not thousands of years to figure out a good city plan without modern construction material science.
Brazil is as young as the US and, despite interference from the former, still managed just fine to build walkable cities. Japan too.