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Most Europeans cities and towns were laid out before the advent of the automobile - which is why they are walkable because they had to be. And so they planned public connective transit because they had to and did that very well.
But there are many areas of Europe that are not connected by transit and are not walkable. The poster above is referencing major towns. 
They do have some wastelands of parking and strip mall areas, not as much as the US, but they do exist. They are ugly and tucked in the back away from town centers.

There is a difference between advocating for multi-family dwellings and arguing against urban planning centered around the automobile. Don't conflate the two as they are completely different issues.[/quote]

The point is, all of those "pre-car" walkable places are the ones that everyone loves to visit Clearly more livable and human scale. So why not make that the norm, rather than auto-centric dreck that we have in every cookie cutter suburban area in the US?[/quote]

People also love to visit museums, the Grand Canyon, and Disney World. [/quote]

What does this have to do with building human scale habitable places for everyday living?  :roll:  Do we need strip malls to be this fugly, why can't we build parking BEHIND the businesses and have sidewalks instead of having to trudge across parking lots? There are functional towns the are such PITA to walk around becuase they were built without any consideration for aesthetics or even convenience, just mindlessly plopped around busy roads.  E.g. Vienna Maple street drag, Mclean's sad downtown (despite so many usable businesses), Eden Center, etc.  Even Tysons sucks and they can't get it right, but at least it has some hope with street level human scale walkability being plausible with some investment. [/quote]

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