Re:SimCity, but with Permits
by hunterpayne on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:31AM
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Paris actually isn't that dense compared to some US cities. NYC for example has far more people in the same space as Paris. Not that that is a goal to shoot for but there you go. That being said, at the moment Paris isn't a very nice place to be with all the smoke and looting and all.
Re:SimCity, but with Permits
by alskdfqlkj on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:20AM
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That's not really true. Paris (intra-muros) has ~53,000 people per square mile[1] which is quite high. Manhattan is a fair bit denser at ~74,000 per square mile[2] but NYC's next densest borough of Brooklyn has only ~39,000[3]. And nothing else in the US comes anywhere close; the next densest city is SF which only hits ~18,000[4]
Even if you go beyond the city proper, a number of the Paris banlieues are similarly dense and I think most of the most populous ones are like twice as dense as SF (which, again, is America's second-densest city).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
And despite that, Paris is one of the densest cities in the world, and an incredibly pleasant place to live. This should be a good lesson to everyone that "high density" does not have to be synonymous with reams of skyscrapers.