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Europe's "law and order" urbanism
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Aug 01, 2023
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I love walkable cities with mass transit and traditional urbanism, but I actually don’t love huge cities.

In the United States, these things tend to go together. New York City is gigantic and accounts for a huge share of America’s transit usage, and the other cities with meaningful transit ridership also anchor really large metro areas. Something that I…

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