[tengbretson]

> In the early 20th century, streets were shared spaces: places where people walked, gathered, played.

That's an interesting way to look at compressed horse shit with streams of human waste running over the top of it.

Bear in mind the invention of sidewalks predates the automobile by thousands of years.

[poszlem]

Yeah, no offense to the author, but this feels like a textbook case of the 'noble savage' meme, just applied to the more primitive versions of western countries and it makes the whole piece sound really naive.