Even the old districts of the oldest cities are well structured.
You could say that the fact that North America started to have large population settlements relatively recently is the answer, but actually that has little to do with it. Urban planning has existed for as long as cities have existed. And yet, Old European Cities are in chaos, only the bourgeois expansions of the 19th century and the new neighborhoods are saved from that. In fact, the Romans had an urban planning more similar to that of cities like New York than to places like Paris, Madrid or London, but during the Middle Ages it seems that this was something that was ignored.
>only the old districts of the oldest cities are well structured. there, fixed that for you. American urbanism has been atrocious since the invention of the automobile.
Aiden Martin
this, american started with the XIX european city expansion urbanism which is superb but fucked up after the 40s
Luke Green
>XIX >40s Go all in or give up the Roman numeral larp
Alexander Rodriguez
roman numerals for the century arabic ones for the decade simple as mate
Evan Bailey
They aren't. Some cities have a few good distritcs. Overal its unliveable for real humans. Car first - human last.
>Even the old districts of the oldest cities are well structured. The Dutch created the initial plan for New Amsterdam. Manhattan doesn't have alleys, which is was and is a massive mistake. British >but actually that has little to do with it. Disagree. American cities really only got big in the modern era of high state capacity and massive social/economic pressures promoting an efficient/rationalized society. They didn't have time for hundreds of years of cow paths and covered-up streams and post-fire rebuildings and population booms/busts to carve up the cityscape in a permanent way. >Urban planning has existed for as long as cities have existed. The goals and capacity to implement plans vary greatly between cultures and over the centuries. East Asia had a very strong continuous bureaucratic tradition, and well-developed philosophical ideas about what cities should look like, and their traditional cities do show clear organization. The West either lacked many of those, or had them in weaker form. Writing it that way is standard in many cultures.
Yet European cities work much better Really makes you think
Gavin Phillips
European cities are non functional disneyland rides designed to be looked at (there's no such thing as tourism in this continent, only muricans and chinese paying money to take pictures), an american city is designed to be efficient, not that complicated user
Josiah Barnes
What fucking universe do you live in where American "urban design" is anything better than absolute, irredeemable dogshit?
>he doesn't use roman numerals for the century >he doesn't use binary for the month >he doesn't use hexadecimal for the day i shiggy diggy you're not gonna make it past 11/1f/22
