Open a history book, these cities were designed for horses and carts well before the invention of cars. They also had ghettoes and crime back then as well. This entire "issue" depends on a faulty understanding of history yet it certainly distracts from the real issues of the poor and oppressed. No matter how many times this is explained. The USA is a modern nation and it will never be Europe. We have something entirely new here on a completely different continent with a lot of potential.