n0mesorah,
“Modern American Cities are set up very differently than cities in prewar Europe. The suburb was just coming into existence. This is a major key to reading all the teshuvos from that era.”
Revisionism. Rav Moshe would disagree with you. He maintained that because eruvin where established in cities containing shishim ribo, we cannot today say that cities encompassing such a population cannot erect an eruv. Furthermore, Warsaw, Lodz, Oddesa, and Paris, are no different than todays modern cities. If anything, as Rashi states in Eruvin 59b, the reshus harabbim of the city in the times of Chazal, does not pertain to the way cities are currently laid out (similar to the the Aruch HaShulchan’s argument).
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