European vs US Cities

A comparison to old european cities would be interesting.

Entire cities are historic in Europe. You don't need glass and steel towers to cope with growth. Just build more densely populated suburbs and have good public transport infrastructure to connect people.

Perhaps cities were initially planned with them in mind as opposed to in the US?

In places where humans have been a long town you simply dont create new cities. In a place like Switzerland I could imagine what that would even look like.There are villages everywhere, some grew and became small cities, some slighly larger and do on.Founding city only happens if you move lots of people into a lightly lived in area or during a massive population boom due to agroculture.And you dont need new cities to build great infrastrucute. Look at Istanbul. One of the oldest cities

Just build a european city copy, thousands of years of human living have already figured out how we want to live

If your city is like every other in the US, they changed drastically. Find a city map from pre WWII and compare it to today.

Cities are pretty adaptable, no need to build one from scratch. Look at how Amsterdam changed, or how Paris is changing now

Look at Europe or Asia: All them old cities were designed without cars. Actually, many European cities today opt for car-free downtown areas.

Same in Europe. Brussels city in the 1900s moved 20.000 families to build a single street (now the main pedestrian area). Mussolini paved over dozens of ancient Roman sites to build a big street through the city centre. Paris went through an entire planned effort to reshape the whole city, which created all the famous avenues you know today and at the same time created all the social problems (poor 'banlieue' areas around the city) we still know and love today.

Many cities are planned. Paris was planned in the 19th century, after it had been around for millenia, and they tore stuff down and rebuilt it.