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The relationship is not usually linear, though. With density comes efficiency in services. Though some of that efficiency is eaten by the additional cost of doi
by mjmahone17 10y ago
The relationship is not usually linear, though. With density comes efficiency in services. Though some of that efficiency is eaten by the additional cost of doing the work.
- Retric 10y agoNot really teachers are linear with population size. An overpass is vastly more expensive than a stoplight and still cheaper than a subway system. So, yes for small changes to population size a city need not spend more an can simply degrade services slightly, but doubling population size quickly gets really expensive.
- maerF0x0 10y agoI would have thought that the linear system was still more expensive than the dense system (within some reasonable limits). Consider the single family home as the null case, everyone lives in single family homes as far as the eye can see, the distance that family must travel to get to the core of a city is greater than any other existing family (that is new homes are on the outer ring of the city and thus progressively further and further from the core). So that family consumes more road miles daily. Vs if you grow in density you do not create anymore miles of road because those people only have to travel a shorter distance. And when the inevitable overpass comes, instead of needing overpasses from 1/2radius of the city you may only need them for 1/4 etc because the people are already in the core and do not need to come from as far. just some thoughts on efficiency of density vs dispersement