Moving Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Cities

As European I always feel a big difference between cities that evolved in the course of millennia and cities (or parts of them) that have been built after cars. They have different patterns. It's not the grid, Roman cities have that too, (check Turin in Italy). It's the size of the roads, all the space used for cars' infrastructure, which separate buildings and makes those cities difficult to walk (first thought LA).

So an evolutionary theory of cities should take into account their environment, whether they are in symbiosis with something else (example: cars) or where they "live", on the top of a hill or in a plain, and which constraints they must obey to (regulations, space, etc).

This is going to be interesting.