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Originally Posted by muppet

In terms of interchangeability, European city centres can of course look like this (NA style good)






Or this (NA style bad - mod cons but soulless)




In the same way as North American city centres can look like this (Eurogood):






or this (Eurobad - historic but decayed)

Shiiiiiet, you chose the best examples for decay in America. The decayed shot is of Philadelphia, which has great downtown, despite the ruins. Those cluttered East Coast style ghettos are usually around the corner from being renovated. Old Wood frame houses on stilts with a sagging foundation, not so much.

In terms of percentage, the majority of our large downtowns are barren, with

- Monumental buildings and skyscrapers
- Unused lawns and public spaces
- Lack of any pedestrian traffic
- Very little automobile traffic into the center
- A handful of open businesses
- Poor transit
- Lots of hotels and convention centers
- Empty storefronts and buildings
- Humongous parking lots
- Bad or non-existing flow into adjacent neighborhoods (there's almost always some adjacent historic neighborhood that was hip back in the day, but has been reduced to a shell of it's former self)

Montgomery, Alabama
https://goo.gl/maps/tn5dm4rdyBj113DD8

Are there any European centers that have a lack of services like the US?