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Lived there 2 years, it's neither sparse nor suburban. It's the densest city in MA.
by dudul 10y ago
Lived there 2 years, it's neither sparse nor suburban. It's the densest city in MA.
- eru 10y agoI judged only from the pictures in the article. I saw lots of freestanding houses three story houses and wide streets. Compare eg this random edge-of-city in Germany http://kultur-in-krefeld.de/medien/uploads/2015/01/KiK-Dreifensterhaus-I-Kopie.jpg http://kultur-in-krefeld.de/medien/uploads/2015/01/KiK-Dreif... It's not Manhattan by far, just a bit denser. And this is not a city centre. (Alas, they don't have Google Street View in Germany.)
- shados 10y agoAlmost none of the houses in the article are of "free standing houses" (at first glance, there's only one building that might have been a single family). That's just how multi-families and condos look in the area.
- bhickey 10y agoThe raw density numbers are misleading. Somerville has a relatively low proportion of commercial real estate. It's also a small city. Carve up Boston into Somerville sized chunks and you can beat Somerville. Roxbury and Roslindale do a number on the average density. For purposes of comparison it might make more sense to take the total floor area and divide it by the municipality's area, subtracting out things like lakes.