La is a wasted opportunity

[u/villehhulkkonen]

Imagine if Los Angeles was built like Barcelona. Dense 15 million people metropolis with great public transportation and walkability.

They wasted this perfect climate and perfect place for city by building a endless suburban sprawl.

[u/Sammwhyze]

Have you considered all the earthquakes? Not feasible to construct highly engineered high density buildings. Thus the zoning laws in place mainly due to the seismic activity. It's not necessarily the BEST place to have a city.

[u/deerskillet → u/Sammwhyze]

Such cope. Japan does it just fine. Same with SF