Chinese Cooking Demystified wrote a high-level overview of Chinese cities

Chinese Cooking Demystified is a Youtube cooking husband-wife channel. The husband is an American who moved from the US to China, and the two post very good English-language cooking content. Occasionally, they will also post content to squash an Orientalist rumor (eg. wet markets & wet markets, gutter oil).

I thought this post is a very interesting overview of how Chinese cities have developed and became what we know today. While most places seem very walkable and pedestrian-friendly, cars are still pervasive. Compared to Texas, they don't seem to have large surface parking lots or death-trap sidewalks/bike lanes. Compared to NYC, they do have some rather wide avenues where walking would be toilsome.

Overall, it looks leaps and bounds better than most of NA. The husband states that they prefer it to the US, but they would still rate NYC, Boston, and Europe relatively higher.