>>1884653American cities sucked and were corrupt shitholes that people could finally move out post-WWII, and "streetcar suburbs" showed this wasn't exclusively a post-WWII phenomenom.
All the East Coast cities that had their borders more or less locked in all lost population between 1950 and 1985. Despite this fact, the narrative is that they "embraced low-density development" and "can't pay for the services" and that's why they're failing despite not being able to find a real American city where there's actually the case.
