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This is why the argument that “American cities were built for the car” irks me, they weren’t, they were bulldozed for the car This should be illegal Honoré Blocks, Chicago 1870 Everything in this photograph was destroyed in the great fire 1871 Budapest, Hungary 1874 We are not the peak of human civilization, we are its aftermath. And here we stand, convinced we are the first to ascend, never realizing we are only climbing the broken staircase of a past far greater than our present.