Stop Idealising the European City. Nothing is accomplished by you complaining that you don't live in literally Amsterdam or Copenhagen. You know what got those cities to be so good, here's a hint, people in those cities fought for improvements. So instead of just complaining about your city, Do Something. Join a transit advocacy or Climate group, find out where protests are, talk to your fucking neighbors. Because if we want to fix our cities, it won't happen because some guy on the internet complained, no it will happen because of demands from the community in your city.
I've been vague blogging about that idiot for months
If you live in the US and you want a city that looks and functions more like Amsterdam, or Copenhagen, one of those places with a well funded and highly efficient transit system, and ease of traveling by foot or bike, there’s something that you need to do:
Do the work of learning and unlearning that will allow you to become actively and forcefully antiracist.
The carcentric nature of American cities, and particularly suburbs, are a result of American racism, particularly anti-Blackness. The stratification between business and residential zones is a result of racism. The lack of sidewalks and ease of walking or biking? Racism. Transit systems that are perpetually under funded and leave certain parts of cities routinely underserved? Racism.
You cannot solve these problems in our society unless you address the cause. It’s not a love of cars, it’s not lobbying by the oil and gas industry, it was the fact that white people wanted to live far away from where Black people were or could be, and wanted to constrain where Black people could go.
You can’t kill a poison tree without killing its roots. 
This is all true, we need to stop separating issues from each other, car dependence can not be solved without actual anti racist policies and we need to design our transit systems to be more equitable for everyone in our cities not just wealthy white suburbanites. I can’t really speak more to the issue because I am a white person, but we need to amplify and listen to black and other marginalized voices when designing, improving and repairing our urban spaces to avoid displacement.