Comments by "Muck006" (@Muck006) on "American Reacts to Why America Is Terribly Designed" video.

5:55 The HOUSES are CLOSE ... instead of separated by six-lane STROADS. 8:10 Undoing is easy BUT WILL TAKE A LOT OF TIME (and money): you need to START with SUBURBIA and turn each of them into their own little cities with "a center" and A MIX OF BUILDINGS ... with shops and workshops (=jobs) and multi-storey housing (above the shops) and trees on the side of the roads and NARROW STREETS (you DONT have to waste space!) ... and when the people SLOWLY ACCEPT THIS ... you can tackle the center of the big city.
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@kimmbioplotter6841 The US - which is the "patient to be saved" here - has LOADS of cities built on flat land ... and that is the TRAP, because they have LOTS OF LAND, so it is far cheaper to just build a parking lot outside instead of digging up the basement and have a parking lot under (or above, the other easy solution) the big box store. The key factor is PLANNING.
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2:20 The point is also that you DONT SPREAD THE CITY OUT AS MUCH ... and thus "big stores" are far closer together, so you can park in one underground lot and reach several of them with the same walking distance as you can from one US parking lot. This "tightness" obviously makes PUBLIC TRANSPORT more appealing, because you have one stop for several shops instead of one stop for every store.
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