Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "America's Fallen Cities: Hartford" video.

You can see the history of other American cities on other YT channels. But I think it’s good he stopped here or else it would get too depressing to make and watch.
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@Novusod Type up "San Francisco 1940" or "New York City World Fair 1939" or "Detroit 1950s". Lol
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@night6724 Victorian people from the 1890s were smarter, more experienced, had more social capital and had a higher average IQ than people of 2024. And that is despite all our wireless technology (tablets, computers etc.) that should make people smarter, but its not. More people are getting dumbed down.
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@night6724 Seems like someone been drinking the Kool-Aid. None of America founding fathers died at 50 and threw raw sewage out the window. Thomas Jefferson hated cities and preferred rural areas. George Washington lived a long and healthy life, as did Benjamin Franklin. America created Euclidean zoning (car dependent suburbia) to address issues with heavy pollution in big industrial cities. But that created tremendous social isolation for many. That does not mean streetcars or subway trains from back then are inherently bad or technologically inferior. Just look at how much money Americans spend visiting European cities with all its old streetcar networks and mixed use buildings.
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