Real Cities

Not funny, but interesting...
Great quotes on "real cities,"
It often appears that the only functional cities in North America are
those 
that reached maturity before the dominance of the automobile over the
city.
Cities like New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago had their 
infrastructures, including trans****tation,  well in place before everyone 
owned a car or two (the late 1920s). These follow the European models; 
cities in which you only move your car when you leave the city.
The cities that were built (or matured) after that date are generally 
sprawling collections of low-density suburbs, strip malls and shopping 
centers like Phoenix and Los Angeles and the many housing-shopping tracts
of 
Florida that have no focal centers, either culturally or commercially.
The less populated states of the Rockies and Great Plains are even worse. 
A 
Wyoming "city" of 5000 might be two blocks wide and five miles long along 
the old highway with absolutely no thought  of planning, aesthetics or
even 
function.  Without a motor vehicle, life there is almost impossible.
The only truly great cities that seem to prosper in the modern world are 
Canadian: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.