• Gabu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because most non-US cultures didn’t decide to build their cities in the stupidest way possible.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Brazil is as young as the US and, despite interference from the former, still managed just fine to build walkable cities. Japan too.