>>2018917Even comparing aberdeenshire to indiana, the towns and villages in scotland are dense and the towns and villages in indiana are not. People in scotland have chosen (or the government has enforced it through planning) to live in dense towns and villages
Obviously you can take this to the extreme and you get the nile delta with hyperdense slum towns, which don't seem nice places to live
>The laws around planning evolve based on how the population distributes itself over time based on economic incentives and geographic pressuresI'd disagree, especially in countries where the local population had very little control over things like this in the past (highland and lowland clearances, for example, concentrated the population of scotland into towns rather than being homestead farmers)
Once again, I'm not saying "usa bad europe good", they are just different ways of organising society, and it's a sliding scale with north america and ireland at one extreme and egypt at the other, with everywhere else in between
