Depends on where in Europe. There is a lot of wood construction in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. The Netherlands, for instance, uses a lot of brick (for facades, and sand-lime bricks on the inside). Places near the Mediterranean, often use thick stone walls and/or concrete.
When a grocery store is very nearby and you go to the grocery store, you can get your produce fresher. And you don't have to plan your meals, which may or may not be a positive side (it is for me).
Err, no? I live in Montreal, I've carried produce and other kinds of food by bike or by walk in -30C to +40C weather. It doesn't take so long that your food becomes damaged.
If you're carrying frozen food, we have bags with insulation and reflective foil on the inside. Put your frozen food there and even in +40C weather it will take much more than 15 minutes to thaw. Besides, buses and obviously the metros are acclimatized to a temperature of more or less 25C.
It really is just a non-issue. I assure you your produce are left outside for more than 20 minutes. There is no impact at all on freshness, and walkable cities promote smaller grocery stores that tend to have fresher food.
It's remarkable to see people so detached from their natural origins to believe produce will freze or spoil when extracted from the supermarket and exposed to the outside world for a few minutes. Unless you are living at the North-Pole and need to walk more than half an hour in arctic blizzards, there is physically no way your food can freeze on the way back from the supermarket.
Food grows outside, in direct sunlight, exposed to scorching heat or near-freezing temperatures. Most of the plant based food is still living in the shelf when you purchase it, and has imune systems to fight-off bacteria and the like that would otherwise colonize it. The only concern are products of animal origin in the heat, but even the most sensitive like refrigerated fresh fish, still needs at least a few hours in hot weather before they can become problematic.
You say that as if there are no dense cities in places that have a similar climate as Houston. What about Taipei, for instance?
Houston has a July average high temperature of 34,7 degrees C with an average relative humidity of 74,4. The same data for Taipei is 34,3 degrees C with a humidity of 73.
Yet Houston has a population density of 1398,76/km2 whereas Taipei 9700/km2, almost 7 times as high.
Arguably Taipei could have the motive, but not the opportunity, not like Houston does.
The population of Taiwan[1] is 23.78 million, and its land area is 35,808 km^2. The population of Texas[2] is 29 million, and its land area is 676,587 km^2.
So Taiwan has nearly (82%) as many people but 1/20th the land.
Also, Taipei is boxed in by large mountains and the ocean, so there are lots of natural barriers discouraging sprawl.
Houston is near the ocean, but aside from that there are no natural barriers. The land around it is super flat in every direction. The closest hill of any size is probably 150 miles away.
They dont have to. The admin is basicaly big form field generator that maps values to markdown.
So you make field for everything. Dates, checkboxes image selectors..
Only time they would have to touch markdown is when they would need to format text - article for example. This can be solved by using wysiwyg field instead of md field.
Eh, ultimately it's a game, and games are about fun -- not usually about fully accurate simulation.
When the two can go hand-in-hand great, but I'll pick fun over accuracy every time for a game.
Now with that said, if your purpose is to build an accurate simulation -- go for it! But SimCity has always been a game first and foremost to me with a quasi-interesting simulation.
