Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "Can U.S. Cities Build Narrow European Streets?" video.

  1. Most European cities with narrow streets were built so on purpose for military and defensive reasons to hold back invading enemies and allow resistance to prevent takeover. This is not a consideration in the USA.
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  2. Most European cities with narrow streets were built as a critical design consideration for military and defensive reasons to hold back invading enemies, for many cities this also served as a method to maintain control over the population and prevent organization against the leadership and maintain control over the city population as well as a tax structure limiting access and passages depending on needs and affiliation. The downside of these narrow streets was difficulty in fighting fires, slowdown of trade and logistics and high levels of crime and disease as well as lack of access to basic services due to the complexity of these cities many of which today still lack modern services which still today in 2023 is an issue such as found in Italy, Portugal and Greece many areas I have been too seem downright 3rd world.
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