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by treflop 721 days ago
It’s not about how the city is built… cities are largely built the same… completely haphazardly.

What older cities have, due to their age, is a metric ton more people in a smaller area because they ran out of space to expand and have to redevelop existing land.

Phoenix has 5% of the density of Paris and is not even 150 years old. Paris is over 2,000 years old. If Phoenix keeps growing for the next 2,000 years, will it have great public transit? Probably.

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Phoenix is a desert oven. It will never grow like Paris.