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Paris main problem is population density and no high buildings. but you have to see this plan as a part of the "great paris" project aimed at making Paris merge
by bsaul 10y ago
Paris main problem is population density and no high buildings. but you have to see this plan as a part of the "great paris" project aimed at making Paris merge better with its suburb. And hopefully have people not travel theough Paris if they don't need to stop inside.
- _delirium 10y agoParis is a high-density city by Western standards. It's either the highest-density city in Europe or close, depending on how exactly you demarcate cities. We often have discussions here about how San Francisco needs to densify, but Paris has 3x the population density of SF, so is nowhere near in the same league of low-density cities. It's 50% denser than Brooklyn. Of American cities / sub-city regions, only Manhattan edges it out (Manhattan is 30% more dense).
- trystero 10y agoThe city of Paris ("intra-muros") is actually the densest capital in the Western world.
- ocschwar 10y agoAmerican cities have much higher towers, but then they waste the space around those towers on car parking. Paris does it better.