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>A 45-story building is much more expensive than 9 5-story buildings Including land costs, is that really true? I sort of doubt it, since those sorts of high r

>A 45-story building is much more expensive than 9 5-story buildings Including land costs, is that really true? I sort of doubt it, since those sorts of high rises are built in cities where land prices aren't that high. > You really want your housing, jobs, education, retail, and leisure spread around such that people can conduct most or all of their daily affairs on foot. Don't you want the opposite of that? If it is spread, you spend more time traveling. Public transit that is spread out is very hard to accomplish. Cities with that stuff all spread out are car cities.

honkhonkpants 10y ago
If things are spread out and randomly distributed then you have a living economy reachable by foot. There will be a bakery, a barber, a library, and a cafe in your neighborhood. If you put all the houses in one place and all the bakeries in another, then you have to get in your car or on the bus to travel between them. I always trot out Paris, but that's only because it's such a good example. https://www.google.com/maps/search/bakery/@48.8858374,2.334799,3a,75y,102.33h,83.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sys9zaZcLB6rHweM-mF1b-A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dys9zaZcLB6rHweM-mF1b-A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.918724%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/search/bakery/@48.8858374,2.3347...