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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interstates and ring roads obliterated almost every CBD in the United States, bar a small few - Manhattan being the only real exception - that retained some semblance of a public transportation system and pedestrian walkability.

But now car infrastructure is necessary to protect the same CBDs that they devastated? That’s really some Jedi mind trick shit. Go work for Boeing.

Do people come here straight from Mars without bothering to read anything about the history of the places they wax lyrical here. I knew DCUM was ridiculous, but this? Come on . . .[/quote]
This is ahistorical and quite funny. I suppose that you wish more US cities were like Amsterdam? You may want to look at a map because Amsterdam has, you guessed it, a ring road. But yes, tell me more about how ring roads “devastated” cities.

It honestly seems quite evangelical how assured you are of your world view despite it being contrary to actual facts. You are welcome to have aesthetic preferences about your built environment, just as I do or anyone else. You are not welcome to invent your own facts. [/quote]

Here’s some econometrics in case a legion of American historians can’t convince you: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098858

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is, uh, not particularly easy to publish in.[/quote]

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