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Copenhagen and Amsterdam have a population of 602K and 822K respectively. Los Angeles is over 4 million people, and that's just the city not the greater metropolitan area, which is 14+ million.

Thinking that the model of medium-sized, developed European cities is going to work worldwide, when populations are only getting more concentrated and urban, is pretty naive.

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Funny that you raise that very valid point. Maybe we should be asking our selves why there's such a large concentration of the population on these overloaded cities, when the US has arguably enough land to distribute more effectively...Denmark overall has a larger population density as a country than the US.

Sure, there's wide open tracts in North Dakota if that's your thing.

London and Paris are very large cities as well.

Both have excellent public transport.

London has actually much more people than LA. 8.8M instead than less than 4M. And apart from the much better public transport, the roads are not all broken, like the ones that I’ve experienced in LA.

Quite right, every other city in the world is either smaller or larger than the cities we're talking about! What a shame we can't apply any proven solutions from them.

London has OK public transit, but it’s atruggling in a lot of ways. Paris really does have a fantastic system, compared not only to the US, but UK as well. Japan has a very effective one, but good luck getting a group other than the Japanese to accept being shoved into a can like sardines twice a day.

(City of) Amsterdam has a slightly higher population density than Los Angeles, as does London and they both have effective public transport networks.

LA's problem is roads, it's also one of the reasons LA became the bank robber capital of the world based on reading A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh

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