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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by ihaveajob on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:50PM (#39695737)
San Francisco, the densest city in the state, is 3/4 suburbia. There's no reason why it couldn't host 4 times the population without resorting to Hong Kong style urbanism (which would be great IMO, but that's a separate story). The infrastructure argument would make sense if homes in remote areas didn't also need that infrastructure, while suffering from lower efficiency in all measures.
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:03PM (#39695892)
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No more fever posting

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by danking00 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:12PM (#39696813)
I was surprised by the last clause in your last sentence, but you’re absolutely right. https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/ua_list_all.tx...

LA edges out NYC: 7000 to 5300. Presumably in individuals per square mile.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by bombcar on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:32PM (#39697070)
It all depends on where you draw the lines. When people think of LA they think of that whole sprawling metropolis between the mountains (what is technically the LA basis or the LA metro area) - but the City of Los Angeles is a smaller denser portion of that.

And when people think New York City they think Manhattan, but New York City includes quite a bit more.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by pchristensen on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:57PM (#39697416)
The City of Los Angeles is still over 4 million people, more than most states.
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by bombcar on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:54PM (#39698033)
And on land twice the size of Singapore.
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by bobthepanda on Thursday March 14, 2024 @01:57PM (#39707037)
The Census has recently started adopting population-weighted density because census areas are defined at the county level, so can be misleading due to differences in county definition by state. https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti...
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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by pchristensen on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:31PM (#39696280)
I’d love to hear how you came up with that.
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