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Originally Posted by Quixote
This is also true for two other places that I think LA can be compared to: Tokyo and Queens, NY. Those are pretty urban locales with more than decent pedestrian activity, no?
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I don't think Tokyo or Queens have similar streetscapes as LA. Tokyo would be totally foreign. I can't think of any real similarities.
Queens has some very vague similarities but has much narrower streets, few real freeways and comparatively very transit and pedestrian oriented.
LA's major issue is that it boomed too late and has a multimodal, autocentric design. Unless you invent a time machine, you aren't going to get pre-auto built form, which would be a necessary condition for having a comparable geography as core SF.