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In Statista. Accessed November 14, Degree of urbanization percentage of urban population in total population by continent in Statista Inc.. Many European municipalities, with their ancient independent charters, are less subordinated. Pietro S. Nivola Former Brookings Expert. The enforcement of land-use plans varies considerably in Europe. In Germany, as in America, some Lii 1er or states are more restrictive than others.
The Scandinavians, Dutch, and British take planning more seriously than, say, the Italians. Big, fast, and violent The more important contrasts in urban development between America and Europe lie elsewhere. With three and half million square miles of territory, the United States has had much more space over which to spread its settlements. And on this vast expanse, decentralizing technologies took root and spread decades earlier than in other industrial countries. In , for example, 78 percent of all the motor vehicles in the world were located in the United States.
With incomes rising rapidly, and the costs of producing vehicles declining, 56 percent of American families owned an automobile by that time. No European country reached a comparable level of automobile ownership until well after the Second World War. Why a person is ten times more likely to be murdered in America than in Japan, seven times more likely to be raped than in France, or almost four times more likely to be robbed at gun point than in the United Kingdom, is a complex question.
But three things are known. London, a megacity of about the same size, had less thani Second, the rates of personal victimization, including murder, rape, assault, robbery, and personal theft, tend to be much higher within U. In , incidents of violent crime inside Washington, D. Third, there is a strong correlation between city crime rates and the flight of households and businesses to safer jurisdictions. Levitt of the University of Chicago, between Opinion surveys regularly rank public safety as a leading consideration in the selection of residential locations.
Two years ago, when the American Assembly weighed the main obstacles to business investments in the inner cities, it learned that businessmen identified lack of security as the principal impediment. In short, crime in America has further depopulated the cores of metropolitan areas, scattering their inhabitants and businesses. The not-so-invisible hand In addition to these fundamental differences, the public agendas here and in major European countries have been miles apart.
For example, lavish agricultural subsidies in Europe have kept more farmers in business and dissuaded them from selling their land to developers. Per hectare of farmland, agricultural subventions are 12 times more generous in France than in the United States, a divergence that surely helps explain why small farms still surround Paris but not New York City.
Thanks to scant taxation of gasoline, the price of automotive fuel in the United States is almost a quarter of what it is in Italy. Is it any surprise that Italians would live closer to their urban centers, where they can more easily walk to work or rely on public transportation? On a per capita basis, residents of Milan make an average of trips a year on public transportation; people in San Diego make an average of Gasoline is not the only form of energy that is much cheaper in the United States than in Europe.
Rates for electric power and furnace fuels are too. The expense of heating the equivalent of an average detached U. Systems of taxation make a profound difference. European tax structures penalize consumption. The sales tax on a new, medium-sized car in the Netherlands is approximately nine times higher than in the United States; in Denmark, 37 times higher.
The U. Tax policy is not the only factor promoting home ownership in the United States. Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration mortgage guarantees financed more than a quarter of the suburban single-family homes built in the immediate postwar period.
In Europe, the housing stocks of many countries were decimated by the war. Governments responded to the emergency by erecting apartment buildings and extending rental subsidies to large segments of the population. America also built a good deal of publicly subsidized rental housing in the postwar years, but chiefly to accommodate the most impoverished city-dwellers.
Unlike the mixed—income housing complexes scattered around London or Paris, U. Middle-class city-dwellers fled from these places to less perilous locations in the metropolitan fringe.
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