>>1965379>>1965393You're not paying much attention or have confined yourself only to safe threads.
Although to be fair, the cult is actually about equal parts carhate and suburb-and-road hate. The distinction is not that important given there's overlap in most cases.
>>1965432That's an ugly building. There's wear and gross stains all over the outside. Chunks and flakes of building material have fallen off. There's some stonework but it's pretty unremarkable. If it wasn't for the new windows and shutters it wouldn't be even remotely inviting. And for what? A place to sell overpriced snake oil to old ladies and gullible tourists?
Also, most US cities were NEVER that compact. Most cities in the US were built with wide avenues and grid layouts well before cars were common. Hell even the most compact, pre-grid cities in the country (like Boston in pic related) still had wide streets.
Most American downtowns were nothing special. I grew up in a city with an intact downtown (in terms of buildings, anyway... no highways have come through) There's not much to do there, now.
2 Banks
Post Office
Vacant #1
Vacant #2
Lawyer's office
Gourmet Cheese shop (used to be a pizza joint)
Townie dive bar
Law firm #2
Real estate office
Insurance office
T-Mobile office
Cafe
Vacant #3
Barber Shop old and dirty
Vacant #4
Smoke+Vape Shop
Gamestop knockoff but somehow more dirty-looking
A building marked that big red X for "unsafe to enter" on the front
Laundromat
Two more vacant locations.
Urban planning has nothing to do with this. It's primarily economics. Most goods vendors (and customers) vastly prefer strip malls where there's plenty of room to display merchandise in well-lit environments with no strange smells and where lots of customers have room to walk around without bumping into each other.
