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> don't want it to become a city of sky scrapers Paris is, mostly, not a city of skyscrapers. Depends on how you define a skyscraper, but for example Paris has
by sampo 11y ago
> don't want it to become a city of sky scrapers
Paris is, mostly, not a city of skyscrapers. Depends on how you define a skyscraper, but for example Paris has less over 400ft tall buildings than San Francisco.
- tracker1 11y agoThey also don't want to tear down every 2 floor building to build a 3-4 floor one... The only way to increase population density in an established city is to build much taller buildings compared to what is already in place. SF has height limits which prevent this, so you can't build really tall buildings. So density shifts will always be relatively small unless you start tearing down huge swaths of buildings to build slightly larger ones, and with parking requirements on new buildings still won't have much more density.