Bonus Oklahoma "city"
God OKC is just miles and miles of nothing. And the freeways there are perfectly straight. You have to constantly wonder if you've been shuffled off of the mortal plane into a hell where you just keep driving, endlessly, with no real destination or beauty in sight.
- build suburban stuff to increase tax base
- suburban stuff built generates not enough taxes to maintain itself
- repeat as long as possible as infrastructure deteriorates
- ???
- bankruptcy (see Detroit, Flint)
Houston is a lot worse than Los Angeles tbh as a person who has lived in both
I refuse to let you compare LA (urban sprawl) and Houston (a bunch of suburbs pretending to be a city).
That's fair. Los Angeles is more like a bunch of cities in a trench coat anyways.
That's what happens when you build a city in a swamp.
Part of the reason Houston resembles a bug splattered on the windshield of a car is because it is in a swamp.
Maybe like 5% of the reason. The main reason is because of motorist urban design. Otherwise Chicago, Berlin, Moscow, etc. etc. would be the same
Houston has some of the most god awful weather in the country, if it makes you feel better
well that's a bunch of random giant ass-numbers, if you had the popular density with each city then it would mean something to me.
