it’s honestly absurd that you can go to almost any midsize city in Europe and find dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism but if you want that in america there are only 6 cities you can choose from and 5 of them are super expensive
the real tragedy of american urbanism is that our cities with great weather year round are mostly car dependent and the ones with freezing cold winters are walkable
You might not like the way they look, but Five-over-Ones have unlocked walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods for hundreds of thousands of people over the past decade.
The YIMBY and urbanism movements wouldn’t be half as popular as they are today without these.