America has had a strong anti-urban bias since before the US. That's why the state capitol is in Harrisburg, why SC's state capitol is in Columbia instead of Charleston, and so forth and so on.
The English seem to have had less appreciation of urban areas than some of the European countries -- vide Home Counties and the Holburn Viaduct which did a sweep up through some of the more colorful and dangerous London neighborhoods. People got out of London if they could afford to. So, urban removal of people in the way and replacing them with a highway on stilts isn't unique to the US.
Public Housing is put on cheap land. In the US, this was in the center cities near the urban core. In France, it was in the suburbs. Also Toronto has high rise suburbs around a lower height city core which was a very weird sight to this American tourist. I don't know where they put their public housing or if those high rise apartments can be subsidized units, something like our Section Eight housing in the US.
You might want to read or re-read some of what Jefferson said about cities and urban working classes.
People were moving away from US center cities as early as the 1830s
The English seem to have had less appreciation of urban areas than some of the European countries -- vide Home Counties and the Holburn Viaduct which did a sweep up through some of the more colorful and dangerous London neighborhoods. People got out of London if they could afford to. So, urban removal of people in the way and replacing them with a highway on stilts isn't unique to the US.
Public Housing is put on cheap land. In the US, this was in the center cities near the urban core. In France, it was in the suburbs. Also Toronto has high rise suburbs around a lower height city core which was a very weird sight to this American tourist. I don't know where they put their public housing or if those high rise apartments can be subsidized units, something like our Section Eight housing in the US.
You might want to read or re-read some of what Jefferson said about cities and urban working classes.