How did American society not see how shitty this is?

>>2727765
brainwashing and burgers

Most of them are manlets and can't see from that far up

>>2727818

It's shittiest from ground level.

>>2727765
If you look at the values per square meter of land of those buildings and those car parks then you will find that they are almost exactly the same.

>>2727765
Where is this?

>>2728020

You mean real estate value? I don't think that's true. Also, what's your point?

>>2727765

Central Denver. It doesn't look like that any more, thankfully. It was just 50s-80s era madness.

American cities being soulless grids that stretch for miles in all directions with no green spaces is a much bigger issue than the car culture I think.

I don't see anything wrong here.

The city closest me is the worst city layout.

>you need cars to get anywhere.
>it fucking sucks driving there anyways.

Oh look, I can't turn off here on this road I got on, I guess I'm going onto the highway now, thanks city!

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>>2727765
The goal of post-war urban planning was to separate Americans' homes and workplaces with physical distance. The car and freeway allowed this, but with the caveat that parking would have to be provided by businesses and organizations that people used. Most city codes still maintain a ludicrous number of parking spaces for retail and commercial square footage.

Here's some more reading if you're interested:
http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/PrefaceHighCostFreeParking.pdf

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>tfw you're about to enter a new age of millennials rapidly urbanizing and moving population centers closer and closer

>>2728509

Don't worry, the worlds going to fall apart soon anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gsyhuHGgc

>>2727765
At least cities had parking back then.

>>2727765
Car culture was a very cheap means of decentralizing development in the face of a nuclear attack. Much of the better off (i.e. skilled) population moved off to the suburban area in the 1950s. Back then with ICBM limited warhead weight, lower mass to power bombs, high likelihood of mid flight frailer, MIRV having not yet been though up, and piss poor CEP it greatly increase the difficulty of damaging the homeland.

That's Houston.

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>>2727765
What, parking lots? Fine they are shit.

But if this is about the Grid system then fuck you.
>Europeans: LE SOULLESS GRIDS
Meanwhile, thousands of years earlier, in Europe.
>Hey we founded a new city.
>Let us make it grid patterns so it isn't confusing to navigate around.
A few centuries after that
>Shitflinging Germanics with their unrestricted sprawl of their hovel-villages
Modern Europeans
>So natchurul and esthetic.

>>2727765

I never really appreciated parking garages before....

>>2729474
Wow look at all those parking lots

>>2728558
Stop name-dropping acronyms retard boy

>>2729474
Euros invented the american grid system anyway. Its a colonial thing because planned cities function far better than ones that develop organically

We have one or two cities like that here in NZ

>>2727765
In SF and downtown Sac I don't see this.

If anything this looks like Southwest, Midwest or South were fat people are always in cars and their transit is horrible.

>>2729917
>horrible transit

Nigga how can you say that when we have BART? also east bay fag here so our buses are also shit

>>2727765
This looks like Sim City.

>>2729901
>planned cities function far better than ones that develop organically

There are a lot of counterexamples to that, including OP.

>60's
>Segregation ends
>Whites flee the city center to get their kids out of black schools
>the entire urban planning becomes car based

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>>2727765
God, I wish we had these. The number of cars per capita has risen 7x here in the last 30 years, with the majority of people continuing to live in cities built 40 years ago.

>>2727765
The cities sprang up very quickly and inorganically. As well, the great power of our auto and oil industries means that cities were deliberately planned to require vehicles, and many were essentially bullied by the industries into abandoning public transit, because they wanted the cars on the road.

These urban and suburban sprawls were also the result of white flight, with abandoning the inner city, for the suburbs, and now reinforced, by rents and land being extremely expensive within the "inner loop" of the cities, but cheap in the seemingly endless suburban chain generica.

For instance, my apartment is about 650sqft, and $675mo. Now, a two-story, house, with a garage and backyard about 15mi out in the suburbs, is probably $775mo mortgage. I personally hate the "highway towns" suburbia (you know, "Here's the highway into the adjacent city, and the epicenter of our town, here you can find Panda Express, Chilis, TJ Max and Wal-Mart, everything you need to be a slovenly piece of human garbage, you fat pig.") but we have a huge amount of land, we all have cars and so we're encouraged (by land prices and the industries) to build outwards, and forget central planning.

>>2731765
To put it in perspective, and to also address the Europeans claiming "Americans never travel", it's a greater distance from Houston to New Orleans (pretty typical weekend trip for us) than it is from Berlin to Prague.

>Atlanta is bigger than Wales

>>2731792
>Houston is as big as Israel
>Texas as big as France

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>>2731781
>>2731792
>>2731794
I've actually noticed a very odd phenomenon where Europeans seem to utterly fail to grasp the geographic scope of the United States. For example, I knew a Dutch person who thought that the entire Northeast was about the size of their country, when New York State alone is about 4 times larger. Also knew a Brit who thought that Texas was about the size of Ireland, even though you could fit the whole of the British Isles inside of Texas. That's just a couple of IRL experiences off of the top of my head, I've seen people online shocked that it takes more than a day to travel across the country by car, just as an example.

>>2731792
>Phoenix is bigger than Jamaica

>>2727765
Holy shit,is this sim city 3d?

>>2731632
My thoughts exactly, although the player has no clue what he's doing.

>>2731680

Nice try but this shit started right after WW2.