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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by anarazel on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:59PM (#11512021)
Berlin used to have a lot more inhabitants, about 1 million more around around 1940 than now. Not all of the living areas from back then still exist, but it means there are some reserves. In addition to that, while there's obviously some pressure against just moving outward, it's in the middle of flat, mostly unused, land. Not comparable to SF's space constrained situation.

(Oh, and I do miss Berlin)

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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by rconti on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:17PM (#11512290)
I visited once, and loved it.

Of course, my expectation was that it was more dense than SF, so when I found a source that confirmed it, I was all too willing to trust it. But in retrospect (based on your protest on the matter), the housing itself was quite dense in many areas, but there were many parks and large spaces of open areas between the housing blocks.

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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by christianmann on Saturday April 16, 2016 @07:22PM (#11512769)
Wikipedia very unhelpfully tells me that SF has 17k/mi^2 and Berlin has 4k/km^2, which works out to about 10k/mi^2.
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