Re:What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create ...
by WildUtah on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:19PM
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Paris is moderate density? It's denser than London or New York. Similarly dense to Hong Kong. Twice as dense as Tokyo or Mexico City or Seoul. And four times as dense as the city and county San Francisco, not including surrounding sprawl.
Re:What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create ...
by astrodust on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:38PM
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What I mean is the buildings themselves achieve higher density not through height but through aggressively crowding mid-rise buildings together. It also has a fairly uniform density compared to New York where you have skyscrapers in some parts and detached family homes in others. Staten Island pulls down the density average in a huge way.
The result is it doesn't feel nearly as dense as it actually is.
This is in contrast to Hong Kong, São Paulo, and other cities that achieve density through high-rise buildings. You're intimately aware you're in a big city when you're in the built-up cores of these.
One of the biggest differences in these types of cities is parking is very limited or located underground, the buildings push very close to the streets, there's no excess road or empty front yards, and the buildings are mixed retail/residential.
Those things make for consistently more livable environments. There's no long trek across an empty parking lot and a big lawn just to get from point A to point B.