This is a bizarre post that is wrong in almost every detail.
o "In America, you don't ever see them." This is just screamingly false. There are satellite dishes all over the place in both urban and rural areas all over the country. (Suburban too, but there they're often in backyards and harder to see.) They may be sparser than in Europe, I don't know, but they exist in America and are not rare.
o American cities have lots of churches. A much higher percentage than in Europe are low-church Protestant (and thus without the eastern alignment) or constructed in the last half-century or so (and thus without the eastern alignment), but I think the overall percentage of buildings that are churches is actually higher. It's certainly not radically lower.
o The idea that nothing in the US is older than 20 years is clearly meant to be an exaggeration, but it goes beyond mere hyperbole; in any city there are a few buildings that are almost as old as the city itself and plenty others that are a lot older than 20 years. New stuff too, but there are old buildings.
o Semi-true, but in the parking-garage cities the crowds would be moving in no clear single direction, right? Anyway, there are many cities with at least some subway/tram/commuter rail system, not just NY.
o Even in the grid cities, the expressways tend to be radial, and they do point toward a heavier "downtown" area. If you want "decentralized", try Paris.
o The vast majority of US cities have weather that includes clouds, not "only in a few cities".
As far as I can tell, your point really was "these don't apply very well in LA", but that's not because the points mostly don't apply to the US, it's because LA is an outlier.
o "In America, you don't ever see them." This is just screamingly false. There are satellite dishes all over the place in both urban and rural areas all over the country. (Suburban too, but there they're often in backyards and harder to see.) They may be sparser than in Europe, I don't know, but they exist in America and are not rare.
o American cities have lots of churches. A much higher percentage than in Europe are low-church Protestant (and thus without the eastern alignment) or constructed in the last half-century or so (and thus without the eastern alignment), but I think the overall percentage of buildings that are churches is actually higher. It's certainly not radically lower.
o The idea that nothing in the US is older than 20 years is clearly meant to be an exaggeration, but it goes beyond mere hyperbole; in any city there are a few buildings that are almost as old as the city itself and plenty others that are a lot older than 20 years. New stuff too, but there are old buildings.
o Semi-true, but in the parking-garage cities the crowds would be moving in no clear single direction, right? Anyway, there are many cities with at least some subway/tram/commuter rail system, not just NY.
o Even in the grid cities, the expressways tend to be radial, and they do point toward a heavier "downtown" area. If you want "decentralized", try Paris.
o The vast majority of US cities have weather that includes clouds, not "only in a few cities".
As far as I can tell, your point really was "these don't apply very well in LA", but that's not because the points mostly don't apply to the US, it's because LA is an outlier.