Now we are treated to daily videos of apartment buildings in Ukraine attacked by Russian artillery, rockets, and bombs. Thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands, are dead in Mariupol alone.
Ukraine has almost 50 percent more land than California, but only about 4 percent more people, at least before the current conflict. Its population density was about 25 percent less than California’s, meaning there was plenty of room for low-density housing.
Neither California nor Ukraine have any need for such dense cities. Imagine how much harder it would be for Russia to attack cities like Kyiv or Mariupol if ... Read even more
